Re: [Harp-L] Help with Tuning

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Sleigh, one of the top harmonica customizers, makes a set of tuning 
tools that allow you to do some tuning without removing a blow reedplate. These 
include:

- A scraper that can be inserted into the hole to remove small amounts of metal 
from the base of a blow reed to lower pitch

- a poker and a stylus, both of which can be used to nudge a blow reed getnly up 
through the slot

- a "platform" tool that can be inserted under the tip of a reed as a support 
for tuning, including a blow reed that has been flexed through the slot.

The tool kit also comes with a comprehensive guide to tuning reeds.

You can find further information at http://rsleigh.com/harmonica-tools/

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
Columnist, harmonicasessions.com




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From: Mike Rogers <bullfrog9@xxxxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, April 8, 2011 7:19:28 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] Help with Tuning

Here's my problem.  I'm blind and can't do work on my harps, but have trained my 
wife to do simple tuning with file.  Our problem:  we just can't get those blow 
reeds up out of the slot, in order to tune them.  Don't want to bend or break 
them.  Is there something simple to use?  Somebody mentioned part of a CD case, 
but I haven't got a clue what that is.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Bullfrog