Subject: [Harp-L] Fettling the Chrometta

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Hi Angus:
 
I don't think there's a problem with referring you to joining up  with 
Slidemeister, a mostly chromatic list (but now with areas devoted to  diatonic and 
even 'banter').  It's a different set-up than is this forum,  but a great many 
of the people who are signed up there and who post regularly  are also members 
of Harp-L. However, the problems unique to the chromatic are  explored there 
in detail, and I'm sure you'll find more than one solution to  your problem.
 
As to Vern's mention of 'replacing a wooden comb', he seems to have  
forgotten that the chrometta was always made of plastic (afaik), something which  
would have been immediately caught by the many chrometta players on  Slidemeister, 
including the listowner AJFedor since it's his  favourite chrom to play.  
 
So I'd suggest you might post your query there and not do  anything with the 
instrument until you'd gotten input from many of the  very sage advisers 
there. (Several of your fellow countrymen are  members there too :)
 
 
_www.slidemeister.com_ (http://www.slidemeister.com) 
 
 
Elizabeth
 
"Message: 5
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:17:12 -0000
From: "Aongus  MacCana" <amaccana@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Fettling the  Chrometta
To: "Harp-L List" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>

Having decided  that I cannot defer my repair/customising career any longer
I finally brought  myself to taking the covers off a tired old G Chrometta
that I had lying in  my harp box for the past few years. Seeing as it had a
plastic comb,  I  figured it would be a screw together item. I was surprised
to find that the  clever little cobblers at Hohner seem to have nailed it
together by driving  or pressing nails through the comb into the  opposing
reedplate. Unlike  timber combs I don't reckon that the brass reedplates
would stand for this  treatment more than once nor be amenable to toothpick
packing.
My proposed  plan of action to deal with the problem is to make a small anvil
by drilling  a hole in a piece of steel stock large enough to take the nail
heads and then  to drive the nails out by a carefully delivered whack on the
pointy end. If  this is not disastrous, then my next trick will be to drill
out the first  reedplate to take the  closest equivalent size of B.A. or
small metric  setscrew and to drill the opposite reed plate to the tapping
size for the  screw.

Anyone else done this?
Does anyone make a kit like the one  harponline.de supplies for "screwifying"
Hohner 270  Chromonicas?

Beannachtai
Aongus Mac Cana"

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