[Harp-L] Fw: Hohner ORCHESTER.. Please Bring Back a Champ

[PETER GOLDING <goldingpeter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry guys I meant to spell it as ORCHESTER..!!!

> Ok lads my first time coming in from the london touch line
> but really enjoy all the knowledgeable banter.
> 
> Now the mention of the Hohner Orchester 10 hole diatonic
> set off the explosion in my heart's memory chamber as
> for me the best basic mouth organ ever..!!
> 
> After all it was an old fashioned wooden comb Marine Band
> with the slippery rounded metal coverings at the front over
> the holes so playing and sliding around was
> effortless..built for comfort and speed you could say..and
> still a marine band at heart and very versatile.
> 
> Of course the heroes of customising improved things alot
> with shrunken treated combs and Richard Sleigh also made me
> through time some Orchester inspired resin treated comb
> Marine Bands with curved front edges  which i christened
> "Slippery Sleigh"s and am forever eternally
> grateful.
> 
> I note in many of the Harp-L exchanges considerable
> enthusiasm for SP20s which I appreciate is a good choice
> but I cant help thinking its as much for the feel in the
> mouth as anything else without wanting to open a closed
> hornets nest.LOng live again the Hohner Orchester (or
> similar!!)
> 
> Maybe one day if the Orchester is not brought back in all
> its original glory we could envisage the ultimate
> customised wooden comb Marine Band working straight out of
> the box with a modern version of the Orchester featuring a
> plastic or similar front edge..Comfort..Speed..Perfect
> Sound to please everybody..Bends galore..Long Life
> Pitch..but then what would there be to converse about on
> Harp.L.
> 
> KEEP ON HARPIN,
> Peter Golding
> \ 
> 
> Forwarded Message: [Harp-L] Re: Blues Harp, Lancer,
> Orchester, Sp20, MeisterK, Weltmesiter.
> [Harp-L] Re: Blues Harp, Lancer, Orchester, Sp20, MeisterK,
> Weltmesiter.
> Friday, 11 July, 2008 3:53 AM
> From:
> MilwHarmonica@xxxxxxx
> To:
> harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Hello, Hohner and Seydel fans.
> 
> John Walden:
> 
> Please educate us on the UK Hohner harmonica chronology.
> I've seen Hohner  
> #HH535 Lancer 10-hole Richter system harmonicas made in
> Ireland, that are  
> presumably Marine Band harps with Blues Harp-looking
> covers. Keys of C and G  only.
> 
> The Hohner Orchester series harmonicas were made in
> Trossingen, Germany  
> since the mid 1930s, maybe earlier. A German Hohner catalog
> from the mid 1930s  
> shows an Orchester I (10-hole Richter system diatonic); an
> Orchester II  (with 
> octave tuning, 40 reeds, Knittlinger system); and an
> Orchester III (40  
> reeds,octave).Source: "Die Hohner Mundharmonika"
> booklet, mid-1930s.
> 
> The 1971 Hohner catalog shows Orchester I-major keys;
> Hohner Orchester  
> II-minor keys. The Orch.I was available in 12 major keys;
> the Orch.II in 9  
> different minor keys.They didn't have a metal comb, but
> a wood comb, with the  reed 
> chamber walls covered in a wavy metal strip. (source: 1971
> Hohner USA  catalog, 
> Hicksville, New York).
> 
> The Hohner #Special 20 was not shown nor listed in the 1971
> Hohner catalog  
> (Johnny Cash on the catalog cover, Published by M. Hohner,
> Inc., Hicksville, 
> New  York, 1971). The Blues Harp is shown in the 1971
> catalog, 
> 
> The oldest Hohner 10-hole diatonic Richter system harp that
> I've heard of  is 
> the mid 1950s Hohner U.S. Navy Band harmonica. It looked
> identical to the  
> present day 10-hole Hohner Golden Melody, with only the
> model name and color of  
> the plastic comb (navy blue)being different. The US Navy
> Band harp had brass  
> covers, and equal temperament tuning.
> 
> Steve Baker:
> 
> The Meisterklasse Richter 10-hole diatonic and the
> Meisterklasse slide  
> chromatic are both shown in the 1983 Hohner USA catalog,
> (Ashland Virginia).They  
> are displayed in a full-page picture on the front cover of
> the 1983 catalog,  
> "Hohner Harmonicas,Melodicas,Accordions."
> 
> David Brown:
> 
> Seydel makes the Weltmeister harmonicas for the Weltmeister
> accordion  
> company. Could you please list the Weltmeister website
> address in this Harp-l  
> forum? Thanks.
> 
> John Broecker. Please excuse this long posting.
> 
> 
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