[Harp-L] Re: B-Radical 1st Impressions



Ken, thanks, you're right, of course, and with some firm pushing the covers do "click in."

I'll try it at rehearsal tonight.  But first, could someone please tell me what is, "rehearsal"?

-Dave Fertig

--- On Tue, 6/22/10, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx <harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Re: [Harp-L] B-Radical 1st Impressions
        	Tuesday, June 
22, 2010 3:22 PM
        	
            
            
            From: 
            "Ken
 Hildebrand" <airmojoken@xxxxxxxxx>
            	
            	
            	
        	To: 
        	"David Fertig" <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>
        	Cc: 
        	"harp-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>Hi 
David,

I got my A B-radical a couple of weeks ago (also about a 
year's wait)... I like it alot too.

I'm pretty sure that the 
front of the cover plates fit into the grooves on the reed plates.

I
 had to take mine apart several times to adjust a reed that was hitting 
the reed slot and not playing correctly (sort of a buzzing sound).

When
 I first took them off, I noticed a "snap" sound when I removed the 
cover plates (after removing the cover-plate screws).  When I 
re-assembled I had the cover-plates on the way you described (forward of
 the groove, and after removing them a few times, there was no 
"snapping" sound, like they were not properly installed the same way as 
they originally were.

Later, I put the cover plates on with the 
screws just slightly tightened, enough to hold them in place, and I 
pushed the front of the cover-plates back into the grooves so that they 
sort of "snapped" into place... then I tightened the cover-plate screws.

I
 hope that's the way they are suppose to be installed... maybe David 
Payne or Michael Peloquin will say for sure.


One way I found 
to "plug" the side vent holes, is to take a spongey ear-plug (mine was 
orange), and cut it in half... then each half can be tucked nice and 
tight in the vent hole; they can easily be removed.

I printed an 
"A" with a fine magic marker on the right side plug  I usually store my 
harps vertically in my harp cases, with the key on the side.

Ken H
 in OH


--- On Tue, 6/22/10, David Fertig <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>
 wrote:


> While I normally eschew sandwich construction in
 harps, the
> "rail" of 
> the reed plate here is so slight 
in its protrusion it's
> almost 
> undiscernable.   The reed
 plates have a deep-ish groove
> which one might 
> expect 
the cover 
> plate's front edge to fit into, but the edge comes to
 the
> reed plate 
> just beyond the groove, still short of 
the edge.  This is
> apparently by 
> design, and there are 
no discernable leaks.

> 


     


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