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Embossing large gaps
Embossing large gaps
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spackle20
13 posts
Jul 30, 2012
8:53 PM
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When I hold my reed plate up to the light, I can see a couple reeds have a larger cap between the reed tip (opposite end from the rivet) and the plate. Maybe around a millimetre. I have been going at it with the UST but I am thinking there might be a better way. I also tried pressing the area with a small screwdriver.
Is it time to get out the soldering iron, or is there a way to stretch that brass(I think it is brass, Seydel Solist Pro) ?
Man this is a poor captcha.
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Since I learned to overblow, I don't use my car horn so much any more.
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arzajac
832 posts
Jul 31, 2012
3:15 AM
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Hi.
What kind of harp?
I ask because I have seen this sort of inconsistency in harps that quite frankly don't turn out so well after I work on them. For example, some of the Hohner harps from the mid-80s. No matter what you do to improve then, they end up sounding like kazzoos or playing like trash.
If if do have a quality harp with a random wide gap at the tip, the first thing I do is assess how well it plays. Whatever problem I want to deal with involves how it plays, not how it looks. The gap may look huge but the hole may play very very well.
If playing is a problem, I would simply take the reed off and put it back on. If you are not comfortable with rivets, then you can use a screw and make the hole in the rivet pad (on the reed) bigger than usual to give yourself more wiggle room to properly position the reed so that it can reach the top of the slot as you want it to. This will significantly affect the tuning.
I hope this helps.
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Last Edited by on Jul 31, 2012 3:16 AM
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