Re: [Harp-L] Bolt-on reeds...

[Zombor Kovacs <zrkovacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is not just that manufacturing is more expensive.
It is also that sales figures would probably drop.
Less people would buy complete reedplates and new
harps. It is anyway extremely hard to make a product
profitable. 
No way that any manufacturer used bolts if complete
reedplates are selling well. I would do the same.
By the way I have bolts to replace reeds. Surely it
would at least triple manufacturing costs, but perhaps
multiply it by five or more. 

--- Tim Moyer <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> George Leung wrote:
> > Yeah, I know that you can get it customize... but
> do you think 
> > that we will see bolt-on reeds from the factories
> anytime soon, 
> > considering that after so much pleas, Hohner
> finally made a screw 
> > assembly 270, and may make a CX-16 for 2008, but
> personally I 
> > prefer the use of bolt on reeds.
> 
> In a word, no.  I don't think manufacturers are
> interested in doing 
> things that make it significantly more time
> consuming and expensive 
> to build their instruments without a huge amount of
> demand from 
> consumers.  If anything, I think things are going
> the other way.  
> Suzuki has already moved to welded reeds on many of
> it's top 
> diatonic models, including the Promaster, and the
> Delta Frost they 
> build for Bushman.  I don't know whether they do
> this for their 
> chromatics (where repair is a bigger concern than
> with diatonics), 
> but imagine how much more labor it would take to
> build a harp with 
> reeds attached with screws.  
> 
> -tim
> 
> Tim Moyer
> Working Man's Harps
> http://www.workingmansharps.com/
> 
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