Re: [Harp-L] reed going flat when played hard

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Suggestions?  Buy a new harp...



On 8/23/07, Captron100@xxxxxxx <Captron100@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have 2 problems and would appreciate input.  I'm trying to save one  of
> my
> harps that was a good harp -- till yesterday.
> I just embossed (with a socket and glasscutter) and gapped a Lee  Oskar Db
> harp that wasn't playing to my satisfaction.  I slipped  with the glass
> cutter
> and ruined the 6 hole blow reed.  So I replaced  it with a reed from a
> Hohner
> SP20, which turns out to be short, despite my  checking the slot
> measurements
> shown on Pat Missin's site.  The info  for short slotted harps indicates
> that
> the SP20 reed is both longer and  wider. Is a LO key of Db a long
> slot?  One
> other  possibility is that LO rivets are larger in diameter than Hohner
> rivets
> and i  had to open the hole in the Hohner reed to get the rivet in. It
> pretty
> much goes  without saying that this hole now plays badly.  Comments and
> suggestions?
> Something I did has affected the tunings, esp. in my 7  hole blow.  It
> went
> drastically sharp so I tuned it down so that  it's more in the
> ballpark.  But
> now this reed goes way sharp the harder I  blow.  I've never before
> experienced such a drastic variation caused by  volume of
> breath.  Comments and
> suggestions?
> ron
>
>
>
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