Re: [Harp-L] reed plate covers

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Vern Smith <jevern@xxxxxxx> wrote:

 
> I don't know what you are writing, but be very skeptical of any
> claims that 
> choice of cover materials perceptibly affects sound. At SPAH97, there
> was a 
> blind comparison of CX12s; one with black plastic and one with solid
> brass 
> covers.  None of the approx 30 listeners could detect any difference
> in 
> sound.

I could, and I wasn't even part of the test. Blackie Schackner had
engaged me in conversation, and when I heard the changed CX covers I
interrupted the conversation to listen because the sound was so
strikingly different.

(Mind you, I had a hopeless time with the comb materials test.)

Winslow

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