[Harp-L] Re: B-Radical 1st Impressions

[David Fertig <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ken, thanks, you're right, of course, and with some firm pushing the covers do "click in."

I'll try it at rehearsal tonight.  But first, could someone please tell me what is, "rehearsal"?

-Dave Fertig

--- On Tue, 6/22/10, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx <harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Re: [Harp-L] B-Radical 1st Impressions
        	Tuesday, June 
22, 2010 3:22 PM
        	
            
            
            From: 
            "Ken
 Hildebrand" <airmojoken@xxxxxxxxx>
            	
            	
            	
        	To: 
        	"David Fertig" <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>
        	Cc: 
        	"harp-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>Hi 
David,

I got my A B-radical a couple of weeks ago (also about a 
year's wait)... I like it alot too.

I'm pretty sure that the 
front of the cover plates fit into the grooves on the reed plates.

I
 had to take mine apart several times to adjust a reed that was hitting 
the reed slot and not playing correctly (sort of a buzzing sound).

When
 I first took them off, I noticed a "snap" sound when I removed the 
cover plates (after removing the cover-plate screws).  When I 
re-assembled I had the cover-plates on the way you described (forward of
 the groove, and after removing them a few times, there was no 
"snapping" sound, like they were not properly installed the same way as 
they originally were.

Later, I put the cover plates on with the 
screws just slightly tightened, enough to hold them in place, and I 
pushed the front of the cover-plates back into the grooves so that they 
sort of "snapped" into place... then I tightened the cover-plate screws.

I
 hope that's the way they are suppose to be installed... maybe David 
Payne or Michael Peloquin will say for sure.


One way I found 
to "plug" the side vent holes, is to take a spongey ear-plug (mine was 
orange), and cut it in half... then each half can be tucked nice and 
tight in the vent hole; they can easily be removed.

I printed an 
"A" with a fine magic marker on the right side plug  I usually store my 
harps vertically in my harp cases, with the key on the side.

Ken H
 in OH


--- On Tue, 6/22/10, David Fertig <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>
 wrote:


> While I normally eschew sandwich construction in
 harps, the
> "rail" of 
> the reed plate here is so slight 
in its protrusion it's
> almost 
> undiscernable.   The reed
 plates have a deep-ish groove
> which one might 
> expect 
the cover 
> plate's front edge to fit into, but the edge comes to
 the
> reed plate 
> just beyond the groove, still short of 
the edge.  This is
> apparently by 
> design, and there are 
no discernable leaks.

>