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zellecaster
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« on: June 29, 2012, 10:39:25 PM »

Hi,
pretty new to harp but have been playing music my whole life, guitar, bass, and singing.
Been playing harp six months, kinda obsessed, practicing maniacally. I love it. Have harps in pretty much all the keys I need and three low octave ones I love, especially the Low F since regular F harp is just too high for my tastes, sounds like the kettle is boiling, or feedback from the PA....a low F is sweet and I can use it for three common minor keys, Gm, Am, and Dm. I'm lately often playing harps 1 and 1/2 step down in minor key. I don't know what position this is called {?} but it works nicely. The root note is the whole step draw bend on 3 hole and straight 6 draw. For F or it puts you in D minor. On a G harp it's E minor. While I have played blues off and on in my life and do like it, I'm far more interested right now in learning/playing lots of other stuff on harp, horn solos from jazz standards, vocal melodies from all kinds of songs, keyboard parts from stuff. Oh yeah, since I started and didn't know what harp i would like best, my collection is 2 Suzuki Promasters, 1 Manji, 1 Bluesmaster, 1 Harpmaster, 2 Folkmasters, 4 Special 20s, 2 Lee Oskars, 1 Seydel Session steel....  and I have my first custom harp on the way from 16:13 Custom Harmonicas, another Session Steel. What a mash-up eh? Yeah, it's a little weird jumping between some of the harps because the feel can be quite different, but on the other hand it's kinda fun and I'm starting to know how each one responds. Oddly, I don't have a single wood combed harp yet.
I know the Blues players swear by them, but I didn't try them at first and now I seem to like the plastic and aluminum combs. 
Anyway,

Hi Harp People!

Zellecaster 

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