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Leaky?
Leaky?
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Andrew
228 posts
Apr 22, 2009
10:25 PM
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I know there's another topic called Leaky?, but this one is different. I'm starting to think leakiness doesn't exist - at least not the kind that's attributed to poor contact between reed-plate and comb.
The reason is that each chamber has two reeds, and surely the one that's dormant (i.e. the blow reed if you are drawing, etc) is going to pass far more air than any micro gap between reed-plate and comb.
This is probably where we need the advice of a technician such as Chris, but when you gap a harp, is it the case that both reeds have to be right before either will sound right?
Well, that's just a starter question. I'll leave it to you guys to add more.
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scstrickland
49 posts
Apr 23, 2009
2:57 AM
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I know what you mean. Read this forum and you get the impression nine out of ten out of the box harps are leaky, broken twisted pieces of useless junk. Then on another tread you read how some people are going back to old harps they didn't like after they improved their skills. I wonder if leakyness goes away with woodsheding.
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Andrew
230 posts
Apr 23, 2009
3:46 AM
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Yeah, I'm guilty of this myself. I suspected it to be the case that the blow and draw gaps needed adjusting together when I began gapping my harps, but I had had no real trouble with any harp until now, so I forgot about it. But I'm posting because yesterday my MB deluxe in Bb arrived and the 3-draw bends were awful, which makes it the third bad harp I've got in Bb. But today I opened it up and closed down all the blow hole gaps to nothing then reopened them a little, and it works fine. Some of the blow notes need the embouchure to be carefully controlled to get the note and/or avoid the overblow, so I'll eventually maybe open some of them a tad more. But it begs the question why is it only the Bb harps that give me so much trouble?
When I've adjusted all three correctly, I'll compare them.
(MB, MBD and Seydel Solist Pro)
Last Edited by on Apr 23, 2009 3:48 AM
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MrVerylongusername
266 posts
Apr 23, 2009
4:49 AM
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I know what you mean. Read this forum and you get the impression nine out of ten out of the box harps are leaky, broken twisted pieces of useless junk. Then on another tread you read how some people are going back to old harps they didn't like after they improved their skills. I wonder if leakyness goes away with woodsheding.
***Fireworks erupt into the heavens***
***Beethoven's 9th Symphony thunders away in the background***
YES!, finally someone gets it!
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