[Harp-L] Re: Harmonica Repair Manuals.

[Helmuth2849@xxxxxxx]

Hello, John Waldan.
 
Here's a list of a few excellent harmonica maintenance & repair  manuals. 
They are listed in no particular order.
 
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Chromatic Harmonica," by Alan  
"Blackie" Schackner, Warner Bros. publication. It's a tecniques book, but 
also  has 18 pages of reapair, maintenance tips and mics and amps discussion.
 
"Make Your Harmonica Play Well," by Douglas Tate, publisher unknown,  
possibly Hal Leonard-Centerstream publication. An excellent repair and  
maintenance manual. Mostly designed for slide chromatics, but may also be useful  for 
diatonics. My first edition, published by Tate, has 52 pages, but it might  
be more pages from Hal Leonard.
 
"Blackie Schackner's Complete Book of Chromatic & Diatonic State of the  
Art Repairs," by Blackie Schackner, published by H.& R. Farrell company, a  
harmonica mail-order company that went out of business about 7-8 years ago. 
You  may be able to find it in a national bookstore chain, under "out of print 
 books," or at your local public library. I has 32 pages of information.
 
"The Art of Harmonica Maintenance," by Lee Oskar, published by Lee Oskar  
Enterprises.
The 16-page manual is small, but very useful. It's usually sold with the  
Lee Oskar Tool Kit, but you can order it separately from Lee Oskar Ent. or 
your  local Lee Oscar retailer, or at an on-line harmonica company. It's 
designed for  diatonic harmonicas, but some of the techniques can be applied to 
the slide  chromatics.
 
"The Harp Handbook," by Steve Baker, published by Edition louis Hermann  
Demmler,(Ludwigsburg, Germany). This is a great technical manual and repairs 
and  customizing book. The publisher may have changed since this first 
edition. It's  worth finding. Diatonic harps only, 104 pages.
 
Best Regards
 
John Broecker