RE: [Harp-L] remark on the XB

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

> By the way. I have just bought two XB40-s. They are
> still plain crap out of the box. But after sealing
> them fully they are great, apart from hole nr 10. THey
> are not worth the price, but cool to practice and do
> funny things with :-)

I'll chime in to support Zombor to an extent.  I have two XB40s, in G and 
low D, and they stay in their boxes as I reach for my SP20s and Lee Oskars.  
They both needed much work, including un-gapping the auxiliary reeds (which 
really shouldn't have been necessary) and retuning out-of-tune reeds (and I 
know all about intermediate tunings, etc.) before they were even remotely 
playable, and the low D still has a very "stiff" top end (hole 7 up) that 
has defeated my tinkering attempts to put right.  I'm sure that such quality 
control issues have been taken on board by Hohner as they've been expressed 
before and that more recent instruments are better (mine are over two years 
old).  But I find them to be pretty unlovable beasts even when they're 
playing like they should.   They don't get talked about much on Harp-l 
recently either, do they?

Steve


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