Re: [Harp-L] RE: Bad reed I think

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

I think one thing worth mentioning about the "non-centred reed" scenario is 
that it's extremely unlikely to crop up suddenly in a harp that you've been 
playing without problems for a good while.  I must have bought over a 
hundred off-the-shelf harps by now (ah, my misspent youth...) and I've had 
the odd buzzing reed just once or twice that was due to a very slightly 
off-centre reed or a reed with a little burr either on it or in its slot.  
But if your reeds are nicely centred from the word go they are ~not~ going 
to go off-centre unless you fiddle around with them yourself.  A duff reed 
that develops is either a dead 'un or else it has fluff stuck in it.  I have 
had mysterious gapping issues arising occasionally in older harps and why 
that should happen is a complete puzzle to me.  But what is life without the 
odd mystery... ;-)

Steve


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