AV8R
116 posts
Jan 26, 2011
3:02 PM
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Busted!
She came up with 28. I wouldn't let her count two BluesBands because I consider those as toys that I give to my three year old grandson (poor guy, no wonder he can't bend).
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Jim Rumbaugh
385 posts
Jan 26, 2011
3:04 PM
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Now you go count how many shoes she has:)
They cost about the same.
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intermediate level (+) player per the Adam Gussow Scale, Started playing 2001
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PaulM
97 posts
Jan 26, 2011
3:04 PM
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Sounds like she's getting ready to embark on a shopping trip. Good luck.
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MrVerylongusername
1531 posts
Jan 26, 2011
3:05 PM
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@Jim
LOL!
Mine are like my birthdays... after 40 I stopped counting
Last Edited by on Jan 26, 2011 3:06 PM
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BronzeWailer
76 posts
Jan 26, 2011
3:07 PM
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Ouch!
Perhaps the veteran harp addicts have some tips on how to hide your harps...
Maybe put them in a box labelled '1998 tax receipts' or some such.
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KingoBad
586 posts
Jan 26, 2011
3:10 PM
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That is truly funny!
Please excuse me while I go hide something....
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jawbone
384 posts
Jan 26, 2011
3:10 PM
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Only 28 - c'mon, get serious - that's just a good beginning!!!!
Just say what I say - "Hey, I make money with those - what are your golf clubs doing??"
But I don't say it with in arms reach and I make sure I have enough room for a running start!!!
;-)
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
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AV8R
117 posts
Jan 26, 2011
3:26 PM
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It gets worse-she remembered I have three on order (two from Deak, one from Jason) and the one in the glove compartment. Doh!
She's a good sport-I used to be addicted to guitars. Even the best Buddah harp is still less than a cheap Mexican Strat.
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BronzeWailer
77 posts
Jan 26, 2011
3:41 PM
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Great tips, eharp. You obviously have given this some considerable thought.
Excellent point, AV8R. When confronted, we can just remind them that it could be a lot worse, fiscally speaking...
We could always say, 'Naw, that's not a new one, it's been in the drawer for years.' I'm assuming the harps all look basically the same to a non-addict's eyes.
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Sausagescoffer
7 posts
Jan 26, 2011
3:51 PM
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Aint no such thing as too many harps... ;)
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AirMojo
86 posts
Jan 26, 2011
3:53 PM
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Your wife has too much time on her hands... my wife would never ever think of "counting harps"... but I also had dozens of harps and had been playing for over 10 years before we got married 24 years ago.
Same goes for any kind of "tool" be it amps, mics, guns, knives, tools, girl friends (okay, I had to give girl friends up when I got married!)...
I suggest you get a "man-cave" and secure it...
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MP
1321 posts
Jan 26, 2011
4:09 PM
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i don't know about harps, but a good place to hide that photo of the scantily clad ex is in a howlin' wolf record sleeve (sleeve not jacket, it could fall out!).
once i found a nekid poloriod in a ZZ TOP sleeve. we were selling it. i would never have found it otherwise
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MP
doctor of semiotics and reed replacement.
"making the world a better place, one harmonica at a time"
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Barry C.
146 posts
Jan 26, 2011
4:23 PM
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You mean she found your harps?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Find a a new hiding place.
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~Banned in Boston!
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OzarkRich
363 posts
Jan 26, 2011
4:34 PM
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I keep 10% of my check for spending money and give my wife the rest; she takes care of our household budget however she sees fit and I do the same with my 10%. We mind our own (financial) business. It's taken twenty years and two separations to reach this point but it works well. In eight years I'll kick our youngest son out the door and renegotiate my percentage :)
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pistolero
30 posts
Jan 26, 2011
4:55 PM
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@ AirMojo "Same goes for any kind of "tool" be it amps, mics, guns, knives, tools, girl friends (okay, I had to give girl friends up when I got married!)..."
That's the way to have it! I can't complain much, my wife comes from pretty good stock. She hasn't ever complained much about the fishin, huntin, & shootin, too much. I have gotten the "why do you think you need another gun?!?!?" But I have explained it I think. I keep picking up these extra hobbies though, like harpin. It gets harder to deal with when she can say "what about your last hobby, why can't you sell your mountain bike and buy a bunch of harmonica's with that money??? Of course what you can get out of your last love isn't nearly what you have in it isn't exactly what she wants to hear.
At least she IS pretty understanding about the guns and knives and fishing gear. (The money it takes for gear AND the time I spend doing it) Mostly because like you and your harps she had to take that stuff with me when she found me. (I really am a pistolero and to keep in practice isn't exactly cheap these days with the price of ammo)
The harmonica stuff is new, though, but thankfully it's not really that expensive.
I'm afraid she would frown on my having girlfriends though, but when I'm a rich and famous blues musician I'll probably be able to sneak a couple in on the side. (Don't tell her I said that)
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It's MUSIC, not just complicated noise.
Last Edited by on Jan 27, 2011 9:07 AM
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AirMojo
90 posts
Jan 26, 2011
5:15 PM
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@pistoler I have no problems securing my harps, especially since I can secure dozens of firearms and airguns (my favorite shooters) from my wife or any house intruder... my wife knows I have my "stuff", even though I may have had to seduce her with jewelry, house, car, and great sex over the years...
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pistolero
31 posts
Jan 26, 2011
6:00 PM
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EDITED TO REMOVE DRUNKEN RAMBLING
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It's MUSIC, not just complicated noise.
Last Edited by on Jan 27, 2011 9:06 AM
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mrdon46
60 posts
Jan 26, 2011
6:35 PM
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If you think it's bad now, wait 'til she counts your mics and amps.....
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nacoran
3734 posts
Jan 26, 2011
8:39 PM
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MrVLUN- A friend of mine, just a little older than me, just came up on Facebook for his birthday, and since I know he's a bit older than me I knew it was one of those big ones, but he's a marketing genius. He's rebranded it as version 4.0.
(Marketing genius and a hell of a blues guitar player too.)
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Jehosaphat
2 posts
Jan 26, 2011
9:42 PM
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This thread made me laugh..if there is a Modern Shoes Forum...wanna take a bet on that...I betcha the girls are saying the same things(about shoes of course)
Years ago, young marrieds and broke i found a new pair of stillettos in back of the wardrobe that would of paid the rent for the week.
Never mind the makin' up was great .
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ricanefan
84 posts
Jan 26, 2011
10:01 PM
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Mine are scattered - a dozen in a "spares" box, three in her car, nine in my truck, a few in the bureau, one to three in each jacket, a few in the desk, a couple in each backpack, some in the basement. Not intentional, that's just where they wound up so I always have some at the ready, but she's not counting them anyway.
One time, though, she questioned my ordering another - did i "need" it, and I got away with this honesty: no, I didn't, but I wanted it, it was different than anything I had, and besides, I don't spend any money on anything else. Accepted, never questioned again...
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nicewrk
20 posts
Jan 27, 2011
3:34 AM
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Write you congressman. Its why the country is so screwed up. First we give em the right to vote then we teached em to count. No wonder we are going down the tubes.
Blind Mango
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JimInMO
92 posts
Jan 27, 2011
5:35 AM
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Last Request: If I'm the first to go please don't let my wife sell my harps, guitars and amps for what she thinks I paid for them!!!
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Miles Dewar
665 posts
Jan 27, 2011
8:00 AM
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My goodness! They DO cost about the same as shoes!
And all these years Duct Tape has been my best friend.
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Buzadero
719 posts
Jan 27, 2011
3:06 PM
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Revert to counter-interrogation measures:
Deny -- Demand Proof -- Make Counter-Accusations
Those aren't ALL mine.
How could you even think that I would have that many harps? C'mon, seriously?
It's not like all your (shoes, cats, belts, misc knick-knacks etc).
As with any interrogation, prepare yourself mentally for follow-up pain.
As you were....
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Greyowlphotoart
395 posts
Jan 27, 2011
3:35 PM
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I keep all mine in their boxes. My wife seems to have accepted they're little coffins for my deceased pet mice. A for Alfie, C for Charlie, God I miss them. Sniff ;(
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Grey Owl Abstract Photos
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Greyowlphotoart
396 posts
Jan 28, 2011
2:02 AM
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Aargh busted. Further to my obituary above, the wife came home unexpectedly and caught me red handed with an empty harp box opened up and D..ebbie in cupped hands pressed up against my lips.
My hurried excuse of attempted mouth to mouse resuscitation didn't wash. Don't think hearing the mournful strain of 'There is a mouse in New Orleans' helped any.
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rbeetsme
371 posts
Jan 28, 2011
5:08 AM
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Hiding the harps is no big deal, multiple cases stashed here and there. How do I hide the all of the amps and ukes?
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Kingley
1421 posts
Jan 28, 2011
5:42 AM
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Having whittled it down to just what I need and no spares, etc. I currently have nine Hohner Marine Bands and one Hohner Chromonica 270 harmonica. I really don't see the need to have anymore in my arsenal.
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jawbone
385 posts
Jan 28, 2011
5:45 AM
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Hey Rick - quietly send a couple of those amps up here - she'll never find them here!!!
;-)
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
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jawbone
386 posts
Jan 28, 2011
8:33 AM
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Actually - I may have too many!!!
I was looking in my little tear drop trailer for my Ipod thingy and found another A harp, a good one!!!
Didn't know it was missing!!
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
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waltertore
983 posts
Jan 28, 2011
8:41 AM
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It pays to meet your wife while you are on the bandstand! That is how I met Judy (going on 31 years together). I was a full time musician and I told her first thing that was my thing and if she was good with that we can give things a shot. Since she has only supported my music and other life endeavors. She is an original bay area hippy and still wears her hair long, no makeup/perfume/nails, doesn't dye her hair, buys her clothes at the thrift store and doesn't collect any kind of women knick nacks. I pretty much live the same other than my music gear and our detached recording studio. We live very simple in a 900sq ft house with 2 big dogs and a cat. Heck our bedroom is 9'x10'! This is my kind of woman. I am blessed. Walter
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Greyowlphotoart
399 posts
Jan 28, 2011
9:23 AM
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@ waltertore Looks like you both struck Gold then Walter.
Grey Owl YouTube
Grey Owl Abstract Photos
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Joe_L
1023 posts
Jan 28, 2011
9:29 AM
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How cute. Some of you guys are afraid of your wives.
A guy could have destructive and much more expensive hobbies like womanizing. Girlfriends cost a lot more money than harmonicas.
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Kingley
1423 posts
Jan 28, 2011
9:38 AM
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Hahaha! So true Joe! :-)
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waltertore
986 posts
Jan 28, 2011
9:42 AM
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Greyowlphotoart: Thanks, we have! I realize we are both not the norm and would drive your average person nuts in a day. Conversely, I would last about a day with a wife that took an hour to get her face on, shopped till she dropped, decorated a big house with a ton of junk, had closets full of shoes, clothes, went to the beauty shop every week, had to designer coordinate their look before going out the door........ Phew, I got high blood just thinking about that. As to harp content, Judy has stood out in the freezing snow, rain, of Brussels passing the hat as I played, gone without a good meal so I could gig.. Also neither of us wanted children. That really made it special. Being a full time musician and having kids is almost always a train wreck due no money, living in funky places, and moving a ton. I saw a lot of musicians do this and their kids were by in large a mess. I am blessed but childless. One has to pick which route to go. I picked the harp. Walter
On a more serious note. I realize most people chose the children route. That is a beautiful way to go. It is the ultimate musical note. The harp is just a pile of wood and metal. No comparision!
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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