[Harp-L] Info on Hohner CX 12

[harplayer.roger@aol.com]

Wow thanks for your feedback. I guess sound is subjective. I also play saxophone and tried many mouthpieces. At least with sax mouthpieces I found the shape of the mouthpiece determined the sound that I can produce. 
I hope you still continue to make the standard CX 12. I really love the sound and feel of it
 Are you ever going to bring back the different colors for the shell? I looked all over eBay trying to find other colors to no avail. I have a white for many years and also the black ones but would love other colors. Thank you for responding to my post. 
Roger

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On Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 10:45 PM, Steve Baker <booking at xxxxx> wrote:

Hi Roger,
interested to hear that you find the CX-12 Jazz sounds brighter than your original model. To the best of my knowledge, the only difference is that the mouthpiece on the Jazz is narrower. Personally I haven’t noticed a difference in sound, the construction is exactly the same. The unique design is by Gerd Knoppek, who I believe used to work as a designer for BMW before he came to Hohner.
The form of the CX 12 Jazz mouthpiece is much closer to the original design agreed on by our panel of experts when we developed this model around 1991. Hohner subsequently decided to make it thicker, so I was really glad when they brought out the Jazz version as I personally find it much more comfortable to play.
Steve Bakerwww.stevebaker.dewww.harmonica-masters.de