Re: [Harp-L] The reed issue

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

Yes, they were fine. Once you hammer out the brass to the proper  
thickness, it works like any hard brass. Very maleable. The trick is  
to use hard brass. You need it to 'spring'.. Stainless sounds the same.

Jose Carlos

On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Zombor Kovacs wrote:

> 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.