Re: [Harp-L] Igor Flach and the 1847 Silver

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

'Nickel' is a 'base' (is that the right word?) metal - yes? I mean, not
an alloy. Is chrome an alloy of nickel and something else? and does
stainless steel contain nickel? Somehow I felt that nickel, chrome and
stainless steel were all related. I suppose I could look this up
somewhere but I might leave it to Smo-joe & Winslow to battle it out.
RD


>>> Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> 11/03/2008 6:07 >>>
Actually, "German Silver" aka nickel silver, is a nickel-copper alloy,
sometimes including other metals such as zinc:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_silver 

It's used for guitar frets and woodwind keys, but may have toxicity
problems.

Hohner got rid of nickel plating on their coverplates due, I was told,
to German law, as some people are allergic to nickel. Perhaps this alloy
doesn't have that problem.

Winslow

Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 
On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Frank Evers wrote:

> Hi
>
> Life goes strange ways sometimes. Late Igor Flach was Seydels beta
> tester for the 1847 stainless steel reeds harp.
> However he was still unhappy with todays harmonicas, because he
didn't
> want no brass at all in his mouth. Because of this he was looking
> forward to Seydels upcoming "1847 Silver" model.
>
> Now, only two days after his death i see on the Seydel homepage,
that
> this Silver model finally is about to be delivered within this
> month - with solid polymer comb and plated made of German Silver.

German silver is actually nickel
smo-joe

>
> Right the kind of harmonica he was looking forward to play for long.
>
> Strage ways...
>
> -- 
> GruÃ,Frank
>
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