>both are good for about three songs. I personally got the whole idea in >the early '70s from a cute but sometimes inaccurate book by Tony "Little >Sun" Glover, called Blues Harp, or some such. Some of his advice about >soaking or boiling or dipping in whisky is qualified by the statement >that it's just a last resort effort to revive a dead harp on a gig.
Glover's book IS great reading, but I tried boiling a couple of harps after reading it, and it was a disaster. The wood combs swelled to a humorously grotesque size, and although much of the grunge washed out, the dead reeds remained dead. RIP. Live and learn.
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