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From: SNaru~-online.de (Siegfried Naruhn)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 96 15:46 +0100
Subject: RE: Martin/Hohner Harp

Hello friends,

one of the amazings things of harp-L (shortly named also "the list") are the
lots of corrections, apologies, dementis, personal attacks and speeches for the
defence. Hugh named about 700 subscribers of the list but only some 50 are
involved in informing and entertaining the harp family.

Does anybody doubt the list is not for entertaining as well? Then let me only
remind the question whether IronMan Mike Curtis might be just another name for
Mickey Mouse or Batman. I had always been sure that StainlessStealIronfisted
Mike the CurtisMan is a very real person. Thanks Mike for your entertaining
story how you became "Prince Ironhearted".

The intended purpose of the list is surely the exchange of all kind of harp
information. However, one of the highlights with an extreme entertaining value
are those events when someone detects red circles a harper has painted himself
on his back by "stiring up a hornet's nest" not being aware that it is only a
question of time to have own red circles on back. Careful listeners of the list
can easily decode this insinuation as Wim's wholetone chromatic and Winslow's
copyright or e.g. the dispute "on the edge of legality" about the question what
is an intellectual property which caused Hugh to act finally as a referee.

But I think that the family expects at the end peace between "fighting" list
members, otherwise I would for my part unsubscribe immediately. So, I was glad
to see that "hammer and sickle" proved to be a kind of augmented triad.

By this occasion I would like to remind the overwhelming native-English speaking
harpers, specially the US company, that it is not necessary by all means to
write down the usual code in XY Downtown. I had it always in mind to thank
Douglas for his "The subject who talks English". Very funny to hear as a
"non-native" that a strike is not always a strike. Isn't this a similar red
circle as with "need-must" (only between Doug and me).

Don't worry, I didn't forgot my own subject. When I saw Kevin Magowan's:

>>I saw something on the list about the Martin Harp.Hohner made them for
Martin and they are basicly a Cross Harp on a wood comb<<,

I had the very stinking feeling (as Art uses to say) that I got the wrong
train when combining "Martin" and "teflon" and thought my teflon coated 4-octave
CB 16 monster could be meant. Ok, OK, I see that.

There is a saying in Germany: who says A, must also says B (in Pidgeon-German)
which should be allegedly the same as in English English: in for a penny, in
for a pound. In Chikago Blues: in for a blow, in for a draw. Fascinating indeed.

Well, here is my B - pound - draw. To answer the questions of B.B.B. and Steve,
how my .......by far less than 3000 $ or 2000 £ ..... has to be translated, I
name a landmark between 200 and 350 $.

A fixed price depends on the wanted details a CB 14/16 should have. I can
achieve a lot of variations: profile of mouthpiece, zigzag or straightpostioned
reeds, single or double reed plates e.g.

Thanks for listening, have a cycle - must travel

Siegfried
The Germanies