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can't seem to get anything else. I've been torturing the beasts for over a
reed plates are great. Hohner's Special 20 has a similar construction but
why not give one a try? Plastic versus wood comb's aside they are a good harp.
Jim
DATE: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 22:35:23 CDT
From: Barry Schaede
Subject: Lee Oskars?

Suzuki's, Huang's, and a Hering. They're all good for different things.
the box like the Hohner's. If you're at all sensitive to intonation thye
that sound that a lot of people are looking for. The Lee Oskars are
bends. They have much quicker action than the Hohners. The reed plates
preference. Different harmonicas for different jobs. FJM
DATE: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 22:44:12 CDT
From: Barry Schaede
Subject: Mr. Wilson

person that had requested the info on Harmonica Fats. I appreciate your
look forward to seeing more of your work show up in my mailbox. FJM
DATE: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 22:55:59 CDT


appreciate his recognition of misleading and error-ridden posts without
of all. While the efforts to share a person's thoughts and ideas are
are not always the result of tried and true methods, but rather carry an
always bad, because the thought-provoking process has been launched, and will
of the forum, and the objective has been attained!
Also enjoyed reading the various posts regarding the recent SPAH convention

won't be soon forgotten: the comments made regarding his playing are not
have video tapes of him playing on the old Liberace show (taken from the
actor/harmonica player such as Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang film of the
Sinatra and Shelley Winters (1953). Like him or not, he has been around and
manner at the SPAH convention, as witnessed by hundreds. I know Danny Welton
Memphis. IN HIS OWN MIND - he is the world's greatest harmonica player, and
person's ego becomes so over-powering to the exclusion of all others. He
that they would not, he lost it! (I attended a concert he headlined with six
announced, knowing I was in the audience as his guest, that he was going to a
week, where he would be accepting the Harmonica Player of the Year Award -
harmonicist and pianist with many Hollywood film and TV credits, was the
already explained to him the workings of the Award, and that it is not based
contributions a person makes in "spreading the gospel" of the harmonica. It
award. Many novices and even non-players are involved in education of the
to the people of their communities. The award can just as easily be won by a
sold. Finally, it is an award selected by popular vote of the membership at
on Sunday night when he arrived home from the convention to tell me in his
what - his version of the proceedings was no different from what I later
had been mistreated, misunderstood, and not accepted in the way he expected.
victim of his ego. (I have heard rumors that he suffers from a
Melody or himself. So I would not choose to be quoted on this, but if it is
allowance should be given for his actions.)
There have been several references to Brody Buster and his age - he was 9 at
His first name is BRODY, his last name is BUSTER, and his parents are Mr. &

probably missed seeing many of the names that keep turning up on the List -
Butler, Jerry Portnoy, Charlie Musselwhite, Steve Baker, Roland van Straaten,
there more than once. SPAH has featured a Blues Night (usually on Thursday)