Never look a gift harp in the mouth ...

... but it's OK to PUT it in your mouth.

I have an email subscription to Lee Oskar Harmonicas' newsletter. With each newsletter there's a drawing of five names, for a free harmonica. I'm one of those "I never win anything" types, but lo and behold, all of a sudden I was a winner! And when after a few weeks of filling out the shipping info I hadn't received my free harp and I sent an email, I got a phone call from Lee Oskar himself, updating me!

I chose a key I didn't previously have in my kit: A Low F#. (Every so often someone calls for a jazz tune in Ab, and the Low F# works in third position.) It arrived just a few days ago. I own a number of Lee Oskar harps, mainly special tunings that I've picked up over the years for specialty numbers with the cabaret troupe I play with (e.g., a harrmonic minor tuning isn't something that gets called for often at a blues jam), and I've always felt that the Lee Oskars were a good harp with an excellent price point.

Of course, with this new one, the price point was perfect. Free!

Thanks Lee Oskar!