crispyagain
59 posts
Jan 10, 2012
10:57 AM
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The description states "Custom "Chicago style" tuning from Hohner's vaults cannot be found anywhere else in the Hohner line".....what tuning is this ?
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chromaticblues
1121 posts
Jan 10, 2012
11:22 AM
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It's just intonation. They used it right up untill the 90's.
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easyreeder
100 posts
Jan 10, 2012
11:25 AM
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@chromaticblues:
Do you know why they changed?
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chromaticblues
1122 posts
Jan 10, 2012
12:28 PM
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Yeah Lee Oskar's in the 80's and early 90's took a big bite out of Hohner's US sales. So they made a comprimised tuning between the two.
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easyreeder
104 posts
Jan 10, 2012
6:49 PM
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Hmmm. I would think that offering replaceable reed plates would be the logical response. But that's just me, that was what got me to buy Lee Oskars, I didn't know anything about different tunings at the time.
Last Edited by on Jan 10, 2012 6:50 PM
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groyster1
1678 posts
Jan 10, 2012
9:22 PM
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I really wish hohner would offer JI tuning in other harps besides blue midnight-its a much richer sound IMHO
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chromaticblues
1123 posts
Jan 11, 2012
6:22 AM
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@easyreeder Yeah I didn't say it made sense?
They were stabbing in the dark. The answer was Lee Oskar harps were just far superior in the 80's.
I think that's what forced Hohner to retool in 1995.
There a little slow!
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hvyj
2059 posts
Jan 11, 2012
7:33 AM
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"I would think that offering replaceable reed plates would be the logical response."
It was--Hohner also came out with the MS Series to compete with LOs.
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timeistight
287 posts
Jan 11, 2012
7:58 AM
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...and the Blue Midnight is an MS harp so the reed plates should be swappable.
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HawkeyeKane
610 posts
Jan 11, 2012
8:02 AM
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@timeistight
Swappable, yes. But Hohner has yet to produce MS replacement plates with the same Chicago JI tuning that the BM originally comes equipped with OOTB.
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Hawkeye Kane
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chromaticblues
1124 posts
Jan 11, 2012
9:33 AM
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@hvyj Yes your right that was the same time period the MS series was released. That was and still is batch of crappy harps! I never understood discontinueing the Pro, Cross and Miesterklasse and starting the MS line. At the time the hype made it sound like they were going start manufactureing harps the way Japan manufactured everything at that time.
Instead we got low quality harps you can swap reedplates and coverplates on.
All in all I think Lee Oskar woke them up.
Although it was clear they didn't know what to do about it!
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timeistight
288 posts
Jan 11, 2012
10:47 AM
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Flat 5 draw on 7-limit just intonation.
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