Fwd: RE: [Harp-L] Embossing/burnishing reed slots - was Gapping for Overblows

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

To expand a litte on Chris' remark:

Embossing is done to narrow the gap between the long edges of the 
reed and the closest long edges of the slot, i.e. the sides that are 
right next to the reed, where most of the air flow occurs. Draw reeds 
are mounted on the outside of the reedplate, so you can emboss those 
slots simply by removing the covers of the harp. But blow reeds are 
mounted on the inside, so you have to remove the reedplate from the 
comb to get at those reeds and their neighboring slot edges.

Embossing the slot edges that lie on the other side of the reedplade 
from the reeds has little effect, as there is no close contact 
between the reed edge and that side of the slot -it would be like 
carrying an umbrella ahead of yourself at arm's length - in the 
vicinity but useless.

Winslow


--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxx> 
wrote:

That would work for the draw reeds only

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>---- Original Message ----
>From: Captron100@xxxx
>To: harp-l@xxxx
>Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Embossing/burnishing reed slots - was Gapping
>for Overblows
>Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:59:02 EDT
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>>In a message dated 8/5/04 11:33:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tim
>moyer wrote:
>>
>>> >Embossing (or here "burnishing") is done from the reed side of
>the 
>>> >plate, and yes, it will require the harp to be completely 
>>> >disassembled. 
>>
>>Thanks, tim.  Why must the harp be totally disassembled?  Why
>cantcha just do 
>>your embossing on top of the reed, with the harp intact?
>>ron
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