RE: Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Hohner CX-12 Jazz Chromatic

"Wadi Jalil Maluf" <wadijm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:31:33 -0200

Elizabeth, sorry for the misunderstanding, my English has serious limitations so Iâll try to explain as simple as possible. The answer is pretty simple, with a mouthpiece of a hering or Suzuki(a thiner mouthpiece ) you win speed, so the harp Is still one piece but with the mouthpiece glue on top of the original(Iâll try to get a pic of that so you can understand better cause my English sucks).Anyway Iâll try to post some pics of the harp.

Regards,

Wadi

De: EGS1217@xxxxxxx [mailto:EGS1217@xxxxxxx] 
Enviado el: sÃbado, 10 de enero de 2009 5:15
Para: wadijm@xxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Hohner CX-12 Jazz Chromatic

Hi Wadi:

this is where some of the confusion arose, when you wrote:

"Here is the cx 12 jazz black cover. It's 85 euros. 
> http://www.harponline.de/ And I also think it's a nice job for the cx 
> 12 jazz but I have seen some people that
> Puts a chromonica or a Suzuki mouthpiece to the cx 12. I have tested and
> harmonica like this and
> It rock's!"

...the link you sent from Harponline does indeed show the Jazz housing as you've said, and it is going for 85 euros. However, the new 'jazz' cx-12 (the entire instrument) only comes in one colour and I believe that's a gold..or a darker gold/bronze-y colour? (I haven't seen it but am going by the photos in the catalogue)...so I believed the replacement housing came in that same single colour too, and not in black, but I really don't know for sure.... 

Can someone/anyone verify this?

As far as attaching a separate mouthpiece to 'other' chromatics and having it work..I have heard of this before...and I can understand how substituting a mouthpiece from one chromatic to another or even doubling up mouthpieces might fit a player better....with some other chromatics...but I somehow can't see it for the CX-12, due to the shape of the harmonica's housing.  It still doesn't compute for me.

The entire idea of the CX-12 was to have a one-piece body...and to have an easy to clean chromatic which dismantled without tools...the mouthpiece (slide) is interior to this chromatic...and adding (gluing on) another one on top seems superfluous in the extreme, and takes away from several of the things which make this such an attractive instrument. It's not a cheap chrom..if one wanted to add a mouthpiece to an instrument...why this one?  

Or do you mean they're just taking one single part of the mouthpiece and gluing it on to alter the shape, not adding an entire mouthpiece 'assembly' (meaning all the parts including the button?)...because I can't imagine which button the player would use, then? ...the one with the new mouthpiece or the CX-12's own big fat button?  It would seem you'd have need of both just because of the design of the chromatic.

 I can't figure it...and don't quite see what one could possibly gain from doing this and think there'd be a lot to lose...although for a chrometta (which I find very airy), I could well understand how adding a mouthpiece could be a bid to cut down on that airiness, just not for a CX-12, since it's such an entirely differently designed instrument.  

I'd have to actually see this 'customized' CX-12 instrument...or someone playing it to accept that it worked well at all.  Do you think it's at all possible to have one of those who've done it post a clear, close up photo here?

Thanks!

Elizabeth

" 

Hi Elizabeth! 

First of all I the mouthpiece was stick to the cx 12 cover with glue or somewhat.Iâm not a luthier of harmonicas but the guy that did it was and it was expectacular,no air loosing and the response was great. On the other hand he did the same with a Chrometa 12â.I donât know how to describe it but it rocks, itâs a very fast harp (my teacher agrees with me and he has a lot of years of experience with harmonica). The cx 12 black cover I talk about is the cover of the cx JAZZ not the regular cx 12 and it fits into the regular cx 12 harp.

Sorry that I couldnât be more helpful with the mouthpiece thing.

Wadi

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