Re: [Harp-L] Seydel or hohner

[Ben Bouman <benbouman16@xxxxxxxxx>]

The beard friendly solution is mounting the coverplates from the session steel on a 1847 :-))

There are more solutions to overcome the squealing .. when I emboss very precise, combined with centering the reed perfect it should be no problem.
Wax will help but not as much as what I do. I had to fix harps from other players who put  too much wax on the reeds and that killed the sound of the reed.. the sound was dull compared to non-wax reed. 


kindest regards, met vriendelijke groeten, 

Ben Bouman
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> Op 9 feb. 2015, om 16:06 heeft SÃbastien FrÃmal <sebastien.fremal@xxxxxxxxx> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> I bought a lot of different harps to test them and choose the one I prefer.
> I chose the Special 20 (Hohner) for multiple reasons :
> - It's one of the rare beard-friendly harmonica (Manji are great, but i
> didn't test them long as the beard is quickly caught between the cover
> plates and the reeds ...)
> - You can open it. I love the sound of the Marine Band, but I have to set
> up my harmonica if I want to play really well overnotes, which is not
> possible with the Marine Band.
> - Overblows come really easy and with no squealing (except maybe for high
> pitch harmonicas like Eb, F, F# ...).
> I tried the Seydel Classic 1847. The sound is great ! I think I prefer the
> sound of the 1847 to those of the special 20.
> The harp is not beard friendly, but much less aggressive than Manji's. How
> much tears did I drop while playing with manjis ?
> The worst well-known disadvantage of Seydel concerns overnotes : the
> harmonica squeals really quickly. If you put wax on the end of the rivet,
> that should be enough to get clean overnotes, but you need more controle
> with these harps.
> 
> If you have no beard, no need for overnotes and a big wallet, go for 1847 !
> 
> Sebastien
> 
> â