Re: [Harp-L] gold cover plates on Hohner Golden Melody (was Question about harps played by Bobby Darin)

[Rick Epping <rickepping@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I don't recall when the Golden Melody first came out, though there have been numerous different harps by that name, nor when the design of the Golden Melody of which we speak came out, but I do know that a gold covered centennial model of this harp, minus the Golden Melody name, was produced in 1957 to mark 100 years of the Hohner company. 

Best regards,
Rick
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> Eliza Doolittle wrote:  Now that I watch the video again, it's true that Bobby's harp looks golden. I've gone to Hohner's web site, and it 
> certainly lists a diatonic harp with that name, although it's silver, not gold, in spite of its name. I suppose it has changed since that time.
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> I changed the subject line to hopefully get the true history of the Hohner GM from a knowledgeable person, perhaps from Rick Epping or Steve Baker.  Someone
> posted that the key of C is available with gold colored cover plates.  Somewhere in my pile of used harps I have a GM in key of F that has gold covers.   Iirc,
> years ago on harp-L it was mentioned that Hohner once made a special run of gold cover GM's in key of F that were tuned differently then the standard GM tuning
> of equal temperment, which is also the tuning that is used on Lee Oskar harps.  I believe that the GM is the only Hohner diatonic harp that is tuned to equal 
> temperament instead of just tuning or their more modern comprise tuning.
> Ron 
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