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From: JfGindi~ol.com
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:13:07 -0400
Subject: Re: blues tools rack mania

you don't suppose that he is arrogant enough to suggest we learn to play
untipped, do you? Playing that way strains my neck.

Before buying my harp rack, I talked to Mark on the phone. He
told me I could give the rack a try, and if I didn't like it, I could return
it. (I asked him for this favor and he said yes after determining my
essential reasonableness, I guess).
He was not arrogant in the least. (I did not return the rack) By the same
token, he asked Harp-L for its preferences on a harp case, and in return his
rack has received a somewhat public flaggellation by my two good friends HJ
and Steve Price that makes it sound as though the blues tool is essentially
unusable. As a person who creates and sells products for a living, I would be
extremely upset at this treatment. For the record, for anyone thinking of
getting this rack, I think it is a fine rack, easily the best on the market.
For me to play it, it does not need to be adjusted, but can be. Rack playing
is essentially an inconvenient, screwy thing to do, and the perfect rack for
everyone does not, cannot exist. My attitude is that you have to adjust to
the rack. Mark has tried to address this problem with a rack that to some
extent, can adjust to you, and as a 25 year rack player, I think he's created
a pretty good product. It's true that I still mostly use my old
spit-encrusted Elton rack from the 60's when my name was Bob Dylan and the
world was a better place, , but the Bluestool would and will be my main rack
should the old Elton break someday. Sorry HJ and Steve to take you to task
here but I disagree with what you're and publishing and publicizing about the
BluesTool, a product that took a lot of commitment and money (I'm quite sure)
to create and is, as Steve notes, an improvement over the Oskar and Hohner
racks. By the way, I have no connection with the BluesTool folks at all. Jon