Re: [Harp-L] new firebreath

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

The advice from Suzuki is not to emboss as the tolerances are already
so tight that the reed may bind to the slot. Evidently per your
experience, *light* embossing may nt be a problem.

Leakage could cause the poor response you note. But I'd look to poor
comb/reedplate seal, or possibly reed profiling rather than slot
tolerances.

You may want to share what's going on with Suzuki. My impression is
that they are *very* interested in user feedback and in producing the
best possible product. Their customer service rep is Os Leguizamo and
he can be reached by email at

oleguizamo -AT- suzukicorp.com (replace " -AT- " with @)

Winslow

--- Nick Kirkes <nick.kirkes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This may have been touched on already, but I didn't see it in the
> archives.
> 
> I received a Suziki Firebreath yesterday, D, to try it out.  I
> noticed
> the first three holes, blow and draw, but especially hole 3, just
> don't have the volume or tone I'm used to from other harps (Golden
> Melody, Pro Harps; post my own basic gapping/embossing).  I'm a noob,
> so this may just be that it's a new harmonica and will take some
> adjustment in the way I play those notes, but I was expecting
> something that was easier to play on the low end.  There also seems
> to
> be some "more-than-expected" leakage around the draw notes for those
> holes.
> 
> For sake of not wanting to screw up a $55 harmonica, I only lightly
> modified the reed plates (embossing, gapping) to see if I could
> tighten it up a bit, but as I'm still new to the modification game
> (among other things) I didn't do much.
> 
> Has anyone else had this experience?  Should I just go for it and
> work
> the reed plates a little more aggressively?
> 
> That said, I can overblow holes 3 - 6 out of the box with no
> modification.  I can stall reeds 7 - 10 for overdraw's but just get
> silence or a light squeal instead of an overdraw note.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback and sorry if this has been discussed already.
> 
> Nick
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