Re: [Harp-L] Copper/Stainless Steel Combs for Marine Band and Golden Melody

[bad_hat@xxxxxxxx]

I don't miss the weight of metal combed harmonicas.  Regarding the 
sound, the reed work and the cover plate shapes are the large influence 
on harmonica sounds.  What was nice about metal combs is that they were 
very flat and the reed plates mounted with no air leakage.  There are 
now other technologies that achieve similar air tight reed plate 
mountings and they weigh less and also are less expensive.

I would think that copper might be vulnerable to distortion, it's quite 
deformable and I'd also wonder about it's machine-ability.  I've never 
seen a copper comb.  fjm