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From: Douglas Tate
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 12:03:56 +0100
Subject: Rennaissance

Speculation, comments, praise, rejection
Thanks folks for your nice comments... rot you if you said anything nasty!!

Winslow, quite rightly, is searching for an instrument which does what he
wants, no instrument is going to be the answer to every prayer. Even the
finest 1.5 million pound violin has its faults to the top professionals!
They are always seeking something better.

The Rennaissance is a harmonica which works well...strike 1!!

It will be an instrument with a noble sound capable of playing a wide range
of music BUT, it won't give the best sound you have ever heard in 'your'
particular area. If you want that, then it will have to be tweaked to suit
you. Once that has been done, I reckon you might like it.

One of my pupils tried the prototype this morning. He ordered one after
playing it for two minutes. He has a Silver Concerto I set up for him, an
Amadeus I tweaked, and a #270 I originally did for Adler but didn't need to
deliver.
His reasoning was that it worked and he didn't misfind notes.
OK so he goes back to the loony bin tomorrow.......

We (Bobbie, Douglas) have been bandying a ball park figure for price around.
It is 2000 pounds or 3000 dollars . Shouldn't be more, could be less.

BTW , Winslow says price = 40 of his normal instrument. Good Lord!!
Rennaissance IS expensive!!! How much will you pay for something which works
for YOU though, and lasts a lifetime?? (Poor value if you are 98)

BTW 2, the Hohner Silver Concerto costs 4,500 pounds (7,200 dollars!) at
present. Ho Ho Hohner! There is about 40 dollars of silver, a set of reed
plates (same as mine), a standard 270 slide movement with a fancy button,
body which looks internally like a 270 and a pair of uncomfortable silver
cover plates. Think about it.

Mic'l says Baby grand or Rennaissance. No contest. High quality harmonica
or low quality baby grand, which would you rather play, you can't equate. If
you NEED a baby grand, get one... if you want a good harmonica .......

Hey, I think I'll change jobs and open a used car lot!!

Seriously, we are both harp players, we are both experimentalists and this
project is exciting to us as it is firstly, providing me with an instrument
I want to play, and secondly giving a lot of ideas for diatonics.... (should
I have said that Bobbie?) and yes, we hope that we can produce, but we won't
if it doesn't turn out to be as good as the indications are at present, the
last thing we want is a pile of returned instruments. Now where did I learn
that caution from I wonder!!

Douglas t