Credit for the titanium comb should go to Mark Lavoie
(http://www.middlebury.net/lavoie/).
-tim
MundHarp wrote:
I have to disagree...
I LOVE the MS system.
The parts are interchangeable and they are simply louder and more
powerful
than the old HM system....
My current set of diatonic's are ALL MS system, mostly with
Meisterklasse
combs, or with a variety of stainless steel combs, even a couple with
titanium
combs from Tom Moyer... ( THE BEST THERE IS!) OK I have some plastic
and other
combs in wood (dousie), a GREAT improvement on the pear wood HM
series...
OK
THAT WORKS FOR ME!
I play too loud most of the time anyway....
But my favorite harp is an MS Meisterklasse set of reed plates, Blues
Harp
cover plates and Tom Moyer Titanium, or various other stainless
combs...
But my harps are MUCH louder than the old 1960s or 1970's Marine
Bands or
Blues Harp HMs... AND THEY DON'T rip my lips to bits! HEAVEN...
Back in the 1960s I'd buy boxes of a dozen 10 hole "Echo Super
Vampers"
Identical to "Marine Bands"... at each time in every key, they blew
out within an
hour and ripped my lips to piecies.... Then I chucked them away. But
then
Hohner UK stopped agreeing to sell me harps wholesale... That put my
playing
back YEARS.... I now simply use Hohner because I like them. Back in
the 1960's
they didn't care about harmonicists because they had a monopoly! (In
Great
Britain anyway!)
40 years later, It takes me a month to blow out a diatonic. Perhaps
I'm now
a better player? BUT I DONT think so. I think it's because these days
the
harps are MUCH better.
Hohner and PARTICULARLY custom harmonicas have never been so good as
those
that are available today...
Sorry about the rant, but I'll never forgive Hohner UK for preventing
me, a
pro harp player, from buying instruments wholesale!...
What it's now 40 years later...
Jeezzzz HOW can I ever forgive them?
Am I that old?
John "Whiteboy" Walden
London
England
In a message dated 15/06/2008 16:45:33 Pacific Daylight Time,
dave@... writes:
"Anyway..... the troublesome harp is a Hohner Meisterclass modular
system -
how did u guess? It
belongs to a friend. I am not a fan of MS. From my experience, i
often see
lousy tolerances, poor
gapping, and reeds that sit off-kilter in their slots."
I've never been a fan of MS, either. I'm sorry it was a
Meisterklasse, too,
I loved that harp back when it was handmade, hated to see it go the
way of
the Old Standby, which was my favorite when it was a Marine Band
clone.
The reason I was thinking that wasn't really because of the off-
center
reeds, etc. although those are major issues, I was primarily
thinking this because
the MS series has the coverplate screws doing the reed-plate holding
work of
at least two reedplate screws on better harps. On other harps, the
reedplate
screws do 95 percent of the reedplate holding and the coverplate
screws'
main job is holding the coverplates. Had you tightened the
coverplate screws on
one of those harps, it would likely have little affect on how the
reedplate
flattens. You would have had that problem with a reedplate screw,
not a
coverplate screw.
Thanks for posting that. I really enjoy participating in Harp-L
mystery harp
theater.
Dave
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