Endorser - Someone who promotes a harmonica for something in return, usually a free t-shirt and a 25% discount on harps, Incorrectly referred to as "Endorsee"
Endorsee - The harmonica company that provides t-shirt and discount on said harps,
Professional - Someone who makes money for something they do
Top Pro Harmonica Player - Someone who lives in a van down by the river
Harmonica Salesman/Dealer - Someone who has convinced his wife he is making money selling harps but is really just feeding his habit.
Guitar player - Long haired hearing impaired person with a lot of mirrors and SRV CDs
Blues Harp Player - Wearer of sunglasses and fedoras and owner of a few Marine Bands in the key of A ---------- Greg Jones 16:23 Custom Harmonicas greg@1623customharmonicas.com 1623customharmonicas.com
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Expert - I'm liking that one! I will give you credit for it the next 2 times I use it. After that, its mine! ha! ---------- Greg Jones 16:23 Custom Harmonicas greg@1623customharmonicas.com 1623customharmonicas.com
Not to hijack the thread Greg, but I am getting an idea for a joke--we will have to write it together y'all . . . Q. What happens when you play a blues song backwards? A. ?
Dad blues - A white sub-genre of originally Afro-American music where musical intensities build upon pompous horn sections, references to fictional past in boxcars and 700 watt amps, and where the success of a guitar solo is measured in the quantity of facial expressions.
Hmmmm, I see among the dwellers we have some wordsmiths.
Lead Guitar Player - Owner of a 400 watt double stack twin reverb point-to-point all tube, solid state killing, 250 lb cab, 80 lb head.. dude that has to borrow money for rent. ---------- Greg Jones 16:23 Custom Harmonicas greg@1623customharmonicas.com 1623customharmonicas.com
Q. What's the difference between male and female lip pursers and tongue blockers? A. Gay and Lesbian. There's a definition in there somewhere.
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With Seydel, if you sell less than the manufacturer retail price, you are in violation of your dealer agreement. So, it does mean something there, at least with that company.
Prewarify - to bend the coverplates in the back to enlarge the opening in the back of the harmonica.
---------- David
____________________ At the time of his birth, it was widely accepted that no one man could play that much music so well or raise that much hell. He proved them all wrong. R.I.P. H. Cecil Payne
Steelify - to take a harmonica with brass reeds and change it out to steel reeds.
Pufferhulse - these are the little tube thingies that surround the slide screws in a chromatic harmonica, aka buffer tubes. This is the german word for them and what I call them. Literally translated, it means "shock absorbing sleeve."
---------- David
____________________ At the time of his birth, it was widely accepted that no one man could play that much music so well or raise that much hell. He proved them all wrong. R.I.P. H. Cecil Payne
Schadenfreude - German word for the feeling you get when a lead guitar player really messes up! ---------- Greg Jones 16:23 Custom Harmonicas greg@1623customharmonicas.com 1623customharmonicas.com
@Beardharmonica: I had seen this guy, but had refrained from commenting or posting examples of his lessons. The internet allows anyones ideas to be aired. The skill is in knowing which ideas and information to pay attention to. ---------- Lucky Lester
I watched the video just now. I don't think there was anything wrong in it, except for the tone. ---------- David
____________________ At the time of his birth, it was widely accepted that no one man could play that much music so well or raise that much hell. He proved them all wrong. R.I.P. H. Cecil Payne
Professional - one who professes to having a profession where professionalism is routinely practiced and continually honed to such a degree that they can perform their work almost flawlessly in any and all circumstances!
Richter - style of harmonica with two reedplates on either side of a divided body - with two reeds per cell (one blow, one draw) that sit on reedplates opposite of each other.
---------- David
____________________ At the time of his birth, it was widely accepted that no one man could play that much music so well or raise that much hell. He proved them all wrong. R.I.P. H. Cecil Payne
"Expert - Someone you should listen to playing before deciding if they actually have anything worthwhile to say" - Komosu and "I always thought an expert was someone who used to be a pert." - Greg
:-) both of those made it worth logging on this morning. ---------- MP affordable reed replacement and repairs.
"making the world a better place, one harmonica at a time"
click user name [MP] for info- repair videos on YouTube. you can reach me via Facebook. Mark Prados
From the video: "Do it too much and you will break the reeds. Then you don't have a harmonica."
If there were only some way new reeds could be installed where old ones were broken. Perhaps someday, someone will invent some countermeasure for broken reeds.
Back when i made my first harmonica tech video several years ago- I used to have dozens of them up - there was only harp repair/adjust video and it was in Italian. Nothing in English. I didn't really get any backlash about putting stuff out there like Rupert Oysler did when he put out his DVD, but it all helps me better understand how nobody had anything to worry about when he started that. I've got a good idea of what's out there and the brass-tacks fact is - the amount of misinformation far exceeds actual information. So we never did reach that point where all this knowledge was out there and people just had to pluck it and not work for it like I and many others did. People coming up today have to filter through all this BS toto figure out what actually works and what doesn't.
---------- David
____________________ At the time of his birth, it was widely accepted that no one man could play that much music so well or raise that much hell. He proved them all wrong. R.I.P. H. Cecil Payne
Pluck and Plank. two sounds other than Plink when plinking reeds. Pluck is found in the higher register. Sometimes 8 draw will pluck rather than plink like the 9 draw next to it.
planking sounds are rarely good to hear no matter where they appear. ---------- MP affordable reed replacement and repairs.
"making the world a better place, one harmonica at a time"
click user name [MP] for info- repair videos on YouTube. you can reach me via Facebook. Mark Prados
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On the previous post about the commonality of walruses and harmonica players looking for tight seals.
I was curious about walruses and why they want tight seals. I thought walruses only ate seals. ---------- David
____________________ At the time of his birth, it was widely accepted that no one man could play that much music so well or raise that much hell. He proved them all wrong. R.I.P. H. Cecil Payne
