RE: [Harp-L] Microfiche Reader

["Aongus MacCana" <amaccana@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Vern,
I had not thought about the 35mm projector and I guess that an old
photographic enlarger would work too. However I can see difficulties in
getting some reedplates into the space where a slide or strip of 35 mm
negative would go easilly. A microfiche reader has the further advantage
that when you drop a reedplate down on the screen you can view it in its
entirety, with less risk of confusion as to what reed you are actually
looking at.
You are dead right about the windsavers. I guess life was not meant to be
easy.
Beannachtai
Aongus

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern [mailto:jevern@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 12 November 2011 17:39
To: Aongus MacCana
Cc: 'mark stafford'; Harp-L List
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Microfiche Reader

Replacing the 35mm slide with the reedplate in a projector also works.  In
both cases, a windsaver must be removed.

Vern

On Nov 12, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Aongus MacCana wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> Yes the use of the microfiche reader is to show the gap all around the
reed
> - which it does very effectively. 
> 
> This means that you see the beneficial effects of any swaging/burnishing
you
> carry out on the reedplates. It also shows any areas where there may be
> insufficient clearance or actual interference between reed and plate.
> 
> Microfiche readers became obsolete with the advent of the PC  and the
> possibility of putting information on a CD which would previously have
been
> committed to microfilm.
> 
> I happen to have a reader- thrown out from an office. I got it for reading
> automobile workshop manuals which garages used to have on microfiche. Like
> the readers the microfiche manuals also became available "on the cheap"
when
> the garages discarded them.
> 
> If you are able to get a reader at a 'garage sale' price, it will tell you
> things about your harmonica that "you wanted to know, but were afraid to
> ask"
> 
> Beannachtai
> 
> Aongus Mac Cana
>