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New Seydel Diatonic
New Seydel Diatonic
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little onion
27 posts
May 10, 2012
5:47 PM
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you mean the world ain't flat?????
thanks greg
makes for an intersting exploration, since i have both. oh, by the way i got yeht box with the 2 low seydels in the post today!!
thanks again
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
971 posts
May 11, 2012
1:48 PM
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Little Onion, that reminds me of something my grandpa and dad used to say everytime they build something. "The world ain't level." It ain't. Especially in West Virginia.
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nacoran
5652 posts
May 11, 2012
3:09 PM
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Dave, do the steel reeds fit any non-Seydel models? I got a Sp20 with a couple bad reeds and some Blues Harps that could use better combs...
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
974 posts
May 11, 2012
4:58 PM
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That was a good point Greg about somebody saying the world wasn't flat. Everytime I gear something historical, I get all excited, so I'm not responding to you comment on flat earth, it just brought this to mind:
I remember learning in school and so did many others that Chris Columbus was this genius who knew the world was round and everybody thought he was a nut. That's complete horsecrap. You had to be King of the Dumbasses in 1492 to have sailed a ship and think the world was flat. AND they didn't sail close to land, either. There's dangerous stuff you can hit when your close to land. So continues my life-long crusade to fight bullshit in history. ;)
Now to answer the actual question. Combs will never fit because Seydels are five percent wider.
On the reeds, sometimes. I've had them go right in with no trouble. I think the Seydel reeds are 2.2mm wide all are the same width. I think Hohner reeds are 2.2mm from hole one to four. Then they narrow a bit and go down to like 1.7mm. So the 2.2mm reeds will usually interchange between Seydel and Hohner. From sometime in the 19th Century, until 2011, Seydel had two reedslot schemes in the 10 hole diatonics, the one that's all 2.2mm wide they use now and one that got narrower.the original Solist Pro had this narrow reed system, so did the Session, Favorite, etc. The Solist was the last to have it.
These narrow Seydel reeds would fit in the Hohners, but the Hohner reeds would not fit in the Seydels, because the Seydel reeds were actually more narrow than the Hohners.
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