Re: [Harp-L] Bandoneon Cold Rolled Stamped

[Vern <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

You are unlikely to find a harmonica with zinc reeds.  

Are you sure that the zinc parts are the reeds?  Zinc is more likely to be used for the reed plates containing the slots. Zinc is not a good spring material and is not suitable for reeds.  Brass is a zinc-copper alloy and is used for reeds.

Even if you can find zinc reeds, you will be disappointed that they do not sound like a bandoneon.   The sound of a harmonica is determined not by the material of the reeds, but by the geometry of the slot, by the variations in flow through the slot as the reed vibrates and most of all by the player’s embouchure.  The amount of sound that emanates directly from the reed as from a bell is negligible.  

I have a harmonica with 47 brass reeds and one stainless steel reed.  No one has been able to find the SS reed by playing it.

Vern


On Aug 10, 2014, at 6:22 AM, Mustafa Umut Sarac <mustafaumutsarac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I want to get best bandoneon sound from an harmonica. I researched
> Bandoneon Reed Alloys and learned that they were soft cold rolled 52-57
> degree pure zinc without a additive. I want to buy a harmoniica with these
> reeds .
> 
> 
> I dont want neither cast zinc plate - harder - nor electro erosive cutting.
> 
> 
> Is there any harmonica manufacturer or reed manufacturer which uses that
> technology.
> 
> 
> Can you give a list of manufacturers and Chinese also.
> 
> 
> Thank you ,
> 
> Mustafa Umut Sarac
> Istanbul