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From: Bobbie Giordano
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 13:20:07 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Renaissance

MY Whoops!! Supposedly, I sent this to the list last night, but apparently
didn't...makes my previous post make a bit more sense, I imagine.......BG

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On Sun, 1 Sep 1996 WVE~ol.com wrote:
> DougT writes:
>
> >The Rennaissance is a harmonica which works well...strike 1!!
>
> To your US readers, a strike is a failure...

Not if you're pitching.

> 3 strikes and you are out. It must be that a strike in cricket = a hit
> in baseball.

I remember getting a third strike once that made a Turkey, and recall being
pretty danged thrilled about it! [3 last-frame strikes in bowling for any
nonbowlers out there.] I prefer to think Doug may have been thinking more
in terms of making an initial blow, or a discovery as in striking oil, or
what might be nice, striking it rich, and I know he considers this project
to be akin to striking out or moving forward, especially in a new direction.
After all, that's what came to mind when I suggested the name Renaissance,
because the instrument is a rebirth of sorts, still a harmonica but with a
new approach to its essential design. Honestly, I believe Douglas is onto
something here.

> >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.

Nothing has been said of mass production yet, and may be undesirable in
the initial respects, anyway.

> Not having seen it or played it, I should remain quiet but that's not my
> way.

That's your prerogative, too, but if you had seen it or somehow learned
more about what is involved, you would realize the following statement has
no basis in fact:

> 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.

The mouthpiece and slide mechanism pieces are designed specifically for
alignment with the new stainless steel body, which in turn are integrated
with the cover design. NONE of these parts are readily incorporated into
use with parts of a 270, or any other commercially available chromatic,
for that matter. This is a distinctly unique and separate instrument.

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

And maybe one day the Renaissance will have these features, too, but for
now the aim is to create a reliable instrument that has beauty, comfort,
facile playability, strength and durability, expansive range of volume,
flexible tonal quality, and ease of maintenance, repair and reed plate
replacement.

Much has already been achieved, I assure you.

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