Re: Hohner quality control?

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At 13:18 9/4/94 -0700, Barry Schaede wrote:
>I recently ordered a Filisko harmonica from Joe Filisko.  I had ordered
>it with special 20 reed plates key of A.  He called me up and said he
>couldn't get any decent reed plates from Hohner.  He said all the recent
>batches were junk and my only hope was to find an old set.  If the plates
>are bad the assembled harmonicas are bound to be too.  He thought it
>might be an alloy problem.  FJM

I'm glad its not just me, then.  I spoke to Joe a month or so ago and will
be ordering a couple from him.  I'm still trying to decide which plates to
go with, hence this post and the "looking for Tombo Ultimos" one.  I'd
*love* to have a set of Filisko'ed Ultimos ...

   -- hugh