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Monday, March 31, 2008
A different way to sell your songs
I have been fooling with distributing the band's music on USB flash drives. The problem has been the cost. I bought 30 assorted flash drives from a site called SurplusComputers.com. I've had great luck with this. The 256 meg flash drives cost $29.99 for a ten pack with free shipping. This is $3 each. I've been bringing 9 or 10 to each gig and selling out. I think I could charge $10 each. I can crowd 8 songs onto each drive, but I am experimenting with using a higher compression rate for the files to fit 12 songs. It's either that or have shorter solos in each song.

The fans love it. They just plug them into their computer, and either import them into iTunes or just play them off the flash drive. They can copy the files off and use the drive for other things.

This is the wave of the future people! It is a little more expensive than burning CDs, but takes less time. There is no cover art to fool with and they sell to a different group of people than the CD crowd. Techy fans who would not consider the CD are drawn to the flash drive, seeing that it has value over and above the songs on it.
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History of this page.

In the dawn of the World Wide Web (1994), Keith Graham created the JT30 page. It started out as a home page for modifying JT30 microphones. Eventually the page became a catchall for microphones and amplified harmonica playing. You can see these pages at: The Original JT30 Page

Now I have three pages for harp mics, harp tab and harp amps. I'm going to start another one just for learning harp.

JT-30 Blues Pages
• Blues Harp Learning Proposal
• Blues Lyrics Cheat Book Download
• Harmonica Learning Resources
• Keith Graham's Street Theory
• Street Theory - Intro
• What Makes a Blues Song
• Why Play Positions
• Blue Notes
• Keith Graham's Street Theory - Three Chords
• Street Theory - First Position
• Street Theory - Third Position
• Picking Up Blues Harp
• Care and Feeding of Harps
• Harp Key Chart
• Identifying the harp key of a song.
• What brand harp to buy
• What Harp Keys to Buy
• Why Blues Harmonica
• JT-30 Questions Answered
• 1941 JT30 Question
• Black Face Twin for Harp and Guitar Use
• Crystal vs. Ceramic Element
• Eliminating the XLR connector.
• Larger Cap in Piazza Circuit
• Shure Bullet Compared to JT-30
• The difference between a CAD HM 50 VC and a JT 30
• More Harmonica Links
• • Microphones
• Astatic JT-30 Mic Dates
• JT-30 Microphone Modifications
• JT30 Boutique
• JT30 FAQ
• Guide to Mic Connectors
• Microphone Element Comparisons
• Microphone Gallery
• How Microphones Work
• Johnny Rooster Custom Mic Paint Jobs
•  • The Original JT30 Page
• Dennis Gruenling Blues Band
• Felix Cabrera
• A Blues Harp Crossword Puzzle
• New Toys
• Kim Wilson at the Hungry Tiger Pictures
• Twin 8 Restoration
• Rod Piazza at Chicago Blues in NYC
• Sugar Ray Pictures at the Hungry Tiger
• Blues Class at RCC
• Texas Crude Amp
• Allan Delay visit
• Bassman Project
• Harpin for Hunger
Harp Amp Pages
Blues Harp Tab
Learning Blues Harp
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Links and Off-site Resources

There is a cool news search engine at Google and there is almost always something interesting about Harmonicas. Try a Harmonica Search at Google News.
There are interesting Usenet discussion groups at Google:
alt.music.harmonica
alt.music.blues
alt.guitar.amps
bit.listserv.blues-l


The Cable Channel CNBC had a small article on collecting vintage microphones on 3/28.
Microphone Techs! Here is a nice article out of Circuit Cellar Magazine on the D-104, the older brother of the JT-30. It has a great discussion on crystal mics and how they match to modern equipment. There is a project on how to rig up a little op amp matching circuit.
Click here to see where Little Walter is buried.
Click here to see where Muddy Waters is buried.
Here's Big Walter's grave
This is Sonny Boy Williamson's (Rice Miller) grave

If you haven't been checking out BassHarps Gig list, then you are missing out on great harp playing. If you are gigging and not on the list then you are probably playing to a half empty house.
There is a Jam Session FAQ on the Internet. Some of it is old and is missing some of the best blues Jams, but it may be useful for finding a local jam. Another more recent jam list is at the National Blues Pages.
Buy an Astatic mug, Harp Joke T-shirt or Mic Mousepad!

My Other Sites.
I fool around with Javascript, Java, PHP, ASP and Flash and I have a couple of interesting sites:
You can read my blog at Keith Graham's Wandering.
www.cthreepo.com
is where I rant and rave about how to write Science Fiction.
Astounding Tales Magazine is a Science Fiction ezine that I publish.
The Jump Gate for all of Keith Graham's websites is www.kpgraham.com



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