Re: [Harp-L] The reed issue

[Zombor Kovacs <zrkovacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well sure it is tedious that way. No way I am thinking
about that. Mass production is the only way. But how
did these reeds sound? Any good?


--- Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have made reeds from various things (in an
> emergency). A split and  
> flattened rifle bullet casing (it's 'annealed' at
> one end), and half  
> of a double edged Wilkinson Sword razor blade (other
> blades should  
> work). Also the stainless steel strips inside
> anti-theft devices,  
> various contact points fingers from inside various
> electronics.
> The problem would be to be able to do this is
> quantity. I believe  
> reeds are made in 'series'. One block will be ground
> to a specific  
> length & end weight (or not), and will cover several
> tones (like Ab  
> to B, then C to Eb, and so on). They are later
> 'finished' off and  
> brought into their relative tone, set in the
> harmonica, and then fine  
> tuned by hand. Doing reeds one at a time with
> cuticle cutters, files,  
> and stones, is VERY tedious.
> 
> smokey-joe
> 
> 
> On Mar 23, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Zombor Kovacs wrote:
> 
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have been fiddling around with harps for a
> while.
> > The most annoying thing for most of us is the
> fatique
> > of reeds. I guess that reed quality today is
> > determined by sales figures and somewhere half way
> > between what is profitable to manufacture and what
> > customers still buy because they accept the
> lifetime.
> > Maybe because they don't know that reeds can last
> > longer. If they lasted longer, the harmonica
> lasted
> > longer and sales figures would drop. Also price
> would
> > increase because of higher reed quality.
> > But I am not willing to accept that we have to use
> > crap reeds, which are visibly crap. Has anybody
> tried
> > to make reeds? Of higher quality materials, from
> > different alloys with good surface etc. I would be
> > interested to know more about this topic.
> >
> > Zombor - www.zovax.atw.hu
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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