Re: [Harp-L] soapy chord harmonica

[Bob Harty <bharty@xxxxxx>]

If you have the tools, the skill and even an ultrasonic cleaner you might want to give it the full on treatment.
Rockin' Rons sells an ultrasonic unit for a pretty decent price IMHO.

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On Mar 23, 2013, at 2:53 PM, JON KIP <jonkip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2013, at 6:30 PM, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> On Mar 21, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Sherman Family <shermfam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> I have 2 questions for the group:
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>>> 1.  Is there anyway to get soap taste out of the harmonica?  It must have been disinfected before sale and now -- well, yuck!
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> sure, you can try some wintergreen-flavored rubbing alcohol (walgreen's has it)....put some in a spray bottle, spray a tiny bit as you feel the urge....into the harmonica, which was probably how the smell got into it.(rather then when taken all apart).....won't kill the soap, but might mute it until you just get used to it..it can't last forever...
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> if it just foams forever, then the answer to your question is not this one.
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> jon kip
> player of music, mostly written by dead people and played on a toy that everybody's Uncle has the good sense to keep safely out of sight in a drawer.
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