Re: [Harp-L] Re: Who has used PT Gazell Valves on Hohner harps?

[John Watts <coast2coastmusic@xxxxxxxxx>]

When I first met PT some years ago he was using his valve method on a set of pre MS Meisterklasse harmonicas.  By then current production had become MS, but occasionally I would turn up an old stock pre-MS Meisterklasse and would save them for PT.  He did not like the MS Meisterklasse for his method.  So, he developed his method on Hohner harmonicas, but has since moved to Seydel, I presume because of better availability of harmonica models that work well with his method, although he has never told me that.


 
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 From: Steve Baker <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Harp-L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 6:13 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Who has used PT Gazell Valves on Hohner  harps?
 
Dave said:
That said, there's not really enough room inside any Hohner diatonic to comfortably valve with any valve.

Steve responds:
I half valved a number of original Hohner Meisterklasse 580 harps in the early 1990s using the then current Hohner chrom windsavers. I recorded a CD with British singer/songwriter Vic Abram using them. They worked fine and I still have a couple. The surviving examples compare favorably with the Big River Harp I half valved using PT's windsavers, though my harps were noticeably brighter in tone.

Steve Baker
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