RD
joe leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx> 22/10/2010 16:35 >>>
On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:28 PM, Rick Dempster wrote:
Why wouldn't they have just tapped the reed plate? (which is what i
do
for reed replacement. A lot easier than fiddling around with a nut.
Any
practical reason, apart, perhaps from reducing labour?
RD
When we talked about this Rick the conclusion was that there are only
so many turns of thread that can be cut into a 'relatively' thin reed
plate and with the nut system you had more turns. That AND the
possibility of wrecking the tap job in a reed plate IS a problem
(usually necessitating a larger mach screw), whereas stripping a nut
is quite hard to do. Reducing labor was never an issue, as it is
actually more labor intensive (and expensive...due to the nuts) to do
the 'stud pin-receiver nut' system. We were looking for the BEST
system.
smo-joe
Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> 22/10/2010 13:51 >>>
Farrell had Hohner Toots Hard Boppers with 00-90 screw posts
instaljed
in the reedplates where the rivets had been. This allowed the user
to
replace a reed by unscrewing a nut, popping the replacement reed on
the
screw post (though the holes in the reed pad needed to be enlarged
a bit
with a rat tail file), and tightening the nut again. You had to do
a bit
of centering of the reed, and gapping and fine tuning are pretty
much
always required, but the actual reed replacement was pretty quick.
Winslow
Winslow Yerxa
Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
Harmonica instructor, The Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance
Resident expert, bluesharmonica.com
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--- On Thu, 10/21/10, gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx <gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From: gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx <gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Replaceable Reeds
To: "Joe Leone" <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>, pneupco2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "Harp-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 5:03 PM
Did Farrell have harmonicas with replaceable reeds?
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