Re: [Harp-L] Cleaning diatonic reed plates

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

>   The one gotchya with denture tablets is they discolour brass.
>   Not good for wood comb harps, for one you'd be soaking them in water.
> -- G.


I have occasionally scrubbed MS wood combs with a gentle toothbrush and warm 
water and given them a quick rinse under the tap (no prolonged soaking) 
without detriment.  I wouldn't do it to the old-style Hohner combs with 
nailed-on plates as I don't want a couple of millimetres of abrasive timber 
protruding into my gob.  As for discoloured brass, what the eye don't 
see.... ;-)

Steve

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