[Harp-L] Oil for wooden covers

[David McCurry]

I guess Vern knows best. It's a beautiful instrument regardless.
Cheers.

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Vern <jevern at xxxxx> wrote:

>
> > On Jan 2, 2018, at 1:41 PM, David McCurry <david.mccurry at xxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > ?..Additional oiling will also make the wood more dense and
> > deaden the transmission of sound vibrations to some small degree.
>
> The covers, held in your soft, fleshy, sound-deadening hands and lips,
> play no part in generating or transmitting the sound. The shape of the
> cavity under the covers could conceivably have some minuscule effect but
> oil won?t change that. Oil will not affect what you hear. Use whatever
> looks and smells good.
>
> > That?s one of the reasons guitars and other tone-wood sound box
> instruments
> > (xylophones and pianos included) either have no finish, or a hard,
> brittle
> > finish like lacquer or shellac.
>
> Harmonicas are not ?sound box? instruments.
>
> > Personally, I don't think it would make a
> > whole lot of difference.
>
> You are right.
>
> Vern
>
>
>
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