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From: Steve & Anne Price
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 23:12:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: blues tools rack

My outrageously expensive Blues Tools rack arrived yesterday and
as I expected, it did not adjust in the one say I knew in advance I
needed it to adjust and was likely to be impossible to make work. I have
long hated racks for a variety of reasons, most of them well known by
rack players. But I seem to have a special strangeness that goes beyond
what can be tolerated by rack producers. I need the harp to be point
down toward my lower jaw at about a 45 degree angle when I play because
that's just how it is. Racks are generally made to approach your mouth
level, if you are a giraffe, and other wise they approach your nose or
glasses that way.

If a normal rack works for you, the blues tools rack will work
for you better than any rack you've ever tried. It is solid, and it's
weight makes the harp stay still instead of you having to chase it all
over the place. I know some rack owners have their special love for an
old rack dating back to when they first lost their virginity or
something, but I'm telling you, if a normal rack works for you, this will
work better.

For me, however, the angle adjustment was woefully shy of the
mark. So I spent some time drilling and I almost got it right, and I'm
singularly bad with tools. It is now usable, but not as delightful as it
could be if it were just slightly more curved. But I can't just bend the
thing like I did my old one that's like a thick wire. This is one hefty
piece of metal, and I'll either have to drill more holes or take it to
someone. Two holes and I'm there. Lacking two holes and I'm not there.
I wish somebody would consult me when they're designing a new product.
But even with it almost there, the difference in my tone is significant
because the holder HOLDS THE HARP, and you can play it instead of bobbing
for apples. I'll have it at a gig on Thursday and that'll be the real
test.

Steve Price