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From: WVE~ol.com
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 19:35:47 -0400
Subject: Re: Rennaissance

In a message dated 96-09-01 08:54:20 EDT, you write:

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>Date: 96-09-01 08:54:20 EDT
>From: dougt_playwe~ableol.co.uk (Douglas Tate)
DougT writes:

>Speculation, comments, praise, rejection


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

To your US readers, a strike is a failure...3 strikes and you are out. It
must be that a strike in cricket = a hit in baseball.

>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.

This is a lesson in the economics of mass production. Not having seen it or
played it, I should remain quiet but that's not my way. From the reports
that I have read, the mouthpiece and slide mechanism is the thing that sounds
best to me. Putting that mechanism on one of Farrell's plastic-bodied,
threaded-fastener, screwed-on-reeds, plated reedplate, replated cover, $400
harps should provide the important improvements at a lower cost, unless the
mouthpiece assembly is a huge percentage of your total cost. Of course this
line of thinking is based on my belief that the SS comb is not a big deal and
that plastic would do as well.

A true lifetime instrument would have stainless steel reeds and (.001" thick)
stainless steel windsavers.

Awaiting your comments, outraged complaints, etc.

Vern