Harmonica star dies soon after being diagnosed with lung cancer

[PreachingToTheGa rbage]

discusseded wrote:

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Reference to a venue type (taverns/dancehalls/bars--the places you folks claim are absolutely dependent on hardcore smokers). These are the venues where blues/boogie bands are best received.
In the article there is this:
'“When I started playing with Norton sometimes we were on the road two or three weeks in a row and all those places were just smoke fests,” Vernazza said.“I quit smoking at that time and I would wake up in the morning coughing. You had to wrap your clothes up in plastic before you put them in your bag.”'

Still how do you know they are the smokest places in the "World"

[PreachingToTheGa rbage]

discusseded wrote:

For this guy, you have to consider that he made his living by basically doing deep breathing exercises in some of the (traditionally) smokiest (tobacco, anyway) places in the world.
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Your words !

[u cannot own me]

discusseded wrote:

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Your information on harmonica construction is out of date. Virtually all now replace the wood with a plastic of some sort. This is partly for durability, and partly because the wood ones swelled from exposure to moisture. This made cleaning them a problem. It also meant that harmonica players generally tended to have shredded lips, because the wood projected beyond the frame and cut into the mouth of the player if anything quick and intricate were attempted.
As the new form no longer has so direct a path to the bloodstream and is easier to keep clean, I suspect it provides improved health safety even considering any risk associated with leachate from the materials. That assumes reasonable care for the instruments, of course.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story...
http://www.virtualmedicalcentre.com/news.asp...
http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Quality-Sa...
http://www.naturalnews.com/020181.html

[discusseded]

Yeah, there are plastics that cause problems. Vom Saal is more familiar for his work on the "wombmate" phenomenon.

PVC pipe has been a huge question mark for well over a decade, because some of it was made with nonylphenols, which can leach into water, but "trade secrets" were invoked to avoid having to disclose which batches from which sources incorporated this "hardener".

Early 90s shock value, and nothing clearly linking it to the plastics used in harmonicas.

[discusseded]

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And you play what instrument?
The only reason harp players occasionally use the plastic ones are economics, not because they are superior instruments. The old Marine Band and blues harp ones are still preferable.
Tell your knowledge about plastic reeds to all the clarinet, sax, oboe, and bassoon players while you're at it.
Here's your waxpaper comb, imbecile.

Sorry, Bubba, but you're way out of touch. These have become the standard, for those who can afford them.

http://www.leeoskar.com/

Marine Band and Blues Harp are Hohner brands, and they have been making them with plastic instead of wood for quite a while. No, the reeds themselves are not made of plastic, and there is no way that you would have gotten that impression from what I said. You'd have to be a complete idiot to believe that they were.

[Musician]

I can understand why you would find the Marine model offensive.

[discusseded]

Musician wrote:

I can understand why you would find the Marine model offensive.

I don't tend to play in salt water.