Re: [Harp-L] Re: Replaceable Reeds

[joe leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 21, 2010, at 7:54 PM, pneupco2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Joe
> When you're talking accordions, you're right. They are waxed in.

Giggle, the WORST thing you can do is leave one in a hot attic. The  
reed shoes all collapse into the sound chambers. Then it's a quasi  
nightmare to figure out where they all go back. If someone picks UP  
the box, you're in trouble because the 'voices sets' can get mixed  
with the 'run sets'. I quit using bees wax and went to hot glue.

Oops, I'm wrong. The worst thing you can do is leave one in the  
cellar and it gets flooded.

> Traditional concertina reed shoes just slid into cut outs in the  
> mounting board. Also, I'm talking about one reed per shoe. Not two  
> per reedplate as on accordions.

Ok Paul. I have never been inside a concertina. The only thing I know  
is that they are tuned English, Irish, German, Austrian, and 'dry  
Irish'.
> On the US Army band harmonica most of the leakage comes from the  
> area where the coverplate meets the comb/reed shoe assembly.

Yes. I used to lay in a teensie bead of caulking, smooth it in, and  
wipe off the excess with a piece of wet toilet tissue. In 13 minutes  
it was ready to play..no leakage there.
> All of this could be easily controlled/eliminated by modern  
> materials and mfg techniques.

Oh, to be sure, and I certainly wasn't debating that. It's just that  
having worked construction, I can always seem to find leaks.  
Nowadays, there's no reason for it. Too many great mucilages, glues,  
mastics, resins, caulks, etc. I used to run Burt's Bees lip balm  
along my edges till I went to spl-20s. Now it doesn't seem necessary.

auguri tuti quanto e arriverderci America..........Jo-Zeppi
> Regards
> Paul N.
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