[Harp-L] Re: 280/64 chromatic screws up or down

[Rick Epping <rickepping@xxxxxxxxx>]

Simply a matter of choosing which battles to fight.  The improvement with
up-and-down facing screws was relatively minor compared to more important
and difficult XB-40 design aspects that needed agreement upon.  It's
also simpler and faster to set all the reed plate screws from one
direction, thereby minimising labor on an already expensive instrument.

Rick

On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, Winslow Yerxa wrote:

> And yet the XB-40 is assembled with all screws going from the bottom
> reedplate up to the top. Rationale?
>
> Winslow Yerxa
> Author, Harmonica For Dummies, ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
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> *From:* Rick Epping <rickepping@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 5, 2013 6:29 PM
> *Subject:* [Harp-L] Re: 280/64 chromatic screws up or down
>
> When Hohner was deciding to change the Golden Melody from pinned to screwed
> reed plates, it was given to me to determine what kind of configuration to
> use.  After testing every possibility, I found that maintaining for the
> reed plate screws the original up/down configuration that was used for the
> pins resulted in a slightly better performance.  Why, I cannot not say for
> sure.  As far as I know, the Golden Melody is still assembled this way.
>
> Best regards,
> Rick
>
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> > I'm restoring my 64 chromonica with a new black plastic comb from Hohner.
> > When I replace the nails with screws, is there any performance difference
> > between screws UP or Down, that is, from either reed plate? (Nails were
> > driven from both sides of the harp.)
> >
> > Robert Hale
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