Re: [Harp-L] Re: Blues Harp

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe, you're the freakin' man! I wouldn't be surprised if you made a minature slide hammer to pull out the dents instead of using the screw. 
What I do on crushed covers is take the cover off, lay it down on a table and take something rounded, using the rounded tip of a file handle or something, and apply pressure and work it back and forth to reshape the coverplate. That will get out any dent and will work out a crease. 
Joe is the man... this guy had a harp get run over by a BUS once and he made it play again. 
Dave
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Dave Payne Sr. 
Elk River Harmonicas
www.elkriverharmonicas.com 

----- Original Message ----
From: Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>
To: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 10:39:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Blues Harp

Jeez guys. All you had to do to rectify crunched covers was to drill  
a small hole in the rear of the comb and push through a 'siding'  
nail. Snip it to 5/8" or so and file the ends smooth. The posts would  
hold the covers in check. 2 small sheet metal screws would also work.  
Maaaan, get some tools. The new harps all have plastic standoffs or  
tabs in the metal covers, so that problem is about gone.

smo-joe

On Jul 11, 2008, at 7:23 AM, David Payne wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Harp-L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:18:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Blues Harp
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> In my effort to find an easy way to bend notes, I bought some Blues  
> Harps in the 70s. I had that problem with caving in the cover  
> plates and then having them leak in the front. I never did like  
> them much.
> Steve Webb in Minnesota
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> The Seydel Solist is very similar to the old handmade blues harp I  
> used to play, maybe a reason I like them so much. On this subject  
> of posts, we've been talking about different covers appearing on  
> the same harp, until about two years ago, the Seydel Solist was on  
> an unsealed, nailed maple comb (now 7 reedplate screws and sealed  
> beech comb). When it was unsealed, it was virtually the same as the  
> prewar Seydel Bandmaster I'm so fond of, the reedplates are still  
> the same, so I'm trying to establish some sort of lineage (will  
> probably take me through Weltmeister) that has that same reedplate  
> and comb combo that will take me back to the prewar Bandmaster  
> days.... The Solist reed widths, shapes, slots are very different  
> from anything else Seydel is doing now, but I find that other reed  
> shape, widths, slots, Seydel uses on most its harps on other, Non- 
> Bandmaster prewars. It's just fascinating, I think, how when  
> everything seems so radically different,
>  there are some constants.
> Dave
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