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From: Douglas Tate
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:59:43 +0100
Subject: Elevated ideas

Charles Deering wrote about octaves the otehr day and surmised that the true
purity of octave playing by Tommy Reilly on his recordings was achieved
solely through the use of my super tuning skills.

Thank you deeply C D. The compliment is well taken, if misplaced. Tommy
used to get his harmonica done mainly by Willi Danneker, a superb guy who
worked for Hohner and fought against what Hohner was doing to the harmonica
for about 40 years. Willi was (and still is, though retired) a wonderful
craftsman, he had many very interesting ideas about the instrument whhich
were never taken up unfortunately. (We pay him so he can't be any good
...syndrome)

My involvement with Tommy was in the mid to late 60s. He made a silver
instrument. It didn't work, I re-engineered it and modesty forbids me to say
how fantastically good it sounded. Later Tommy and I fell out because we
has an argument which I won. My secret pleasure is that the instrument I
made for myself later of a less noble metal sounded even better and still
does. Hope the new one I am building this week will be better still. (From
now on I can't wait nearly 30 years between models, I'd only get another
three or four in)(See the new one a SPAH)

Thanks again Charles, the cheques in the post.

Douglas T