[Harp-L] gold cover plates on Hohner Golden Melody (was Question about harps played by Bobby Darin)



 Eliza Doolittle wrote:  Now that I watch the video again, it's true that Bobby's harp looks golden. I've gone to Hohner's web site, and it 
certainly lists a diatonic harp with that name, although it's silver, not gold, in spite of its name. I suppose it has changed since that time.


I changed the subject line to hopefully get the true history of the Hohner GM from a knowledgeable person, perhaps from Rick Epping or Steve Baker.  Someone
posted that the key of C is available with gold colored cover plates.  Somewhere in my pile of used harps I have a GM in key of F that has gold covers.   Iirc,
 years ago on harp-L it was mentioned that Hohner once made a special run of gold cover GM's in key of F that were tuned differently then the standard GM tuning
 of equal temperment, which is also the tuning that is used on Lee Oskar harps.  I believe that the GM is the only Hohner diatonic harp that is tuned to equal 
temperament instead of just tuning or their more modern comprise tuning.
Ron 



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