Re: [Harp-L] Larger harps?

[Ken Hildebrand <airmojoken@xxxxxxxxx>]

The only large diatonics that I can think of are the Hohner 364 (12 hole), the 365 (14 hole), and the 365SBS (Steve Baker Special, 14 hole).  These have wood combs and from my experience with them, it really helps to seal the wood combs.

I have a 364 key of C which is a low C, and its a pretty cool harp... sealing the comb really helped !

The 365SBS harps are really cool too with the holes 1,2, and 3 repeating the regular richter note pattern in holes 4,5,6, but an octave lower.  The remaining holes are like the standard richter tuning plus some extra higher notes.

So you might want to try these.

Ken H in OH


--- On Sun, 1/11/09, rgnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <rgnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey guys, Ive been playing chromatic for a few months now
> and lately have gotten interested in the diatonic. I have a
> Marine Band Special 20 but I have large hands and find this
> thing so tiny after playing the chromatics. Is there a
> quality diatonic that is significantly larger than the MB?
> Ive been looking at the Golden Melody but its dimensions
> dont seem to be much larger than MB. Are all diatonics this
> small?