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From: hink~ervtech.com (Patricia M. Hinkle)
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 14:11:05 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Beer & Harps

I played a college party last night with a group of guys I often jam with.
It's an interesting scene- you get the chance to perform but no one seems
to care that you've never gotten an entire song together. Just a big
public jam with a singer, keyboards(electric drums), a bassist and myself.
Anyways, it was the first party I played that I really enjoyed myself at.
It was their graduation and people were really excited. I did a five
minute extended solo and it was great fun- pulled everyone into the little
room with the band in it, women dancing in front of me and such. Had a
good time overall, but here is my problem. One of the women, in all her
dancing (I'm sure it was inspired by me and not the beer ;) knocked over my
harp case. Four or five harps fell out and now smell like a mixture of
cigarettes and beer. I ran to the kitchen and rinced out the afflicted
harps, seemingly satisfactorily, but today upon picking one up to play and
tasted that terrible pungent bitterness of alcohal (I don't drink.) Any
suggestions on how to take care of this? Also, playing some of the harps
after rinsing (I had to, I swear) they played a little easier. Now, I
don't soak my harps and I know the vast number of reasons why, but I do
think they sound different at least, I won't make a value judgment, when
soaked than when played dry.

-Tom-