Re: [Harp-L] Re: Blues Harp

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:18:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Blues Harp


In my effort to find an easy way to bend notes, I bought some Blues Harps in the 70s. I had that problem with caving in the cover plates and then having them leak in the front. I never did like them much.
Steve Webb in Minnesota


The Seydel Solist is very similar to the old handmade blues harp I used to play, maybe a reason I like them so much. On this subject of posts, we've been talking about different covers appearing on the same harp, until about two years ago, the Seydel Solist was on an unsealed, nailed maple comb (now 7 reedplate screws and sealed beech comb). When it was unsealed, it was virtually the same as the prewar Seydel Bandmaster I'm so fond of, the reedplates are still the same, so I'm trying to establish some sort of lineage (will probably take me through Weltmeister) that has that same reedplate and comb combo that will take me back to the prewar Bandmaster days.... The Solist reed widths, shapes, slots are very different from anything else Seydel is doing now, but I find that other reed shape, widths, slots, Seydel uses on most its harps on other, Non-Bandmaster prewars. It's just fascinating, I think, how when everything seems so radically different,
 there are some constants.   
Dave
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