RE: [Harp-L] how far?

["Clayton Gary Lehmann" <hqr@xxxxxxx>]

I constructed one from a Seydel Blues Solist in C--see attached chart.

I tuned the top blow note with silver solder-I first did the job before I
started using solder. Now I use it all the time.

Adding material makes more sense than removing it, but I don't know about
raising the pitch with solder . . .

Gary

 

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Subject: [Harp-L] how far?

 

Hello Reed Scrapers,

 

I'm working on a Newton Fourkey tuning, retuning from

standard diatonic plates.

 

How far can you go with a reed? Do you get more

distance (pitch change) out of LOWERING a reed than

RAISING? (Lowering a reed surely seems to come faster

than filing away the fat, double-thick tip of a low

reed.)

 

I started in the middle of the harp (holes 5 and 6)

nearest the final pitches I wanted, recognizing the

tuning "compresses" the range with more whole step

intervals, than the thirds and fourths in Standard

Diatonic.

 

Draw 1 has to pull up a 4th, and Blow 1 has to pull up

a 5th!   Hole 10 blow has to go down a 6th. Don't know

yet if I can take a reed that far.

 

Robert Hale, "the Duke Of Wail"

DUKEofWAIL.com

Gilbert, Arizona

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