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Another Damn Reed Failure....
Another Damn Reed Failure....
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
409 posts
May 05, 2010
6:48 PM
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Guys, I feel like BBQ Bob, cause I know I keep saying this, but the durability is you, not the harp. Good qualities in harmonicas are volume, response and tone. On reeds that have been horizontally-milled, durability is usually not a sign of quality. It's quite the opposite. The leakiest harps, leak your playing force away from the reed, thus it is they that are the most durable. The sloppier the slots, the leakier the reedplates and comb, the longer a harmonica will last.
A leaky harp just does itself what BBQ tries to get everybody to do, not put so much force on the reed. I don't think I've blown a reed out in at least two years. On anything. yet I'm getting more volume, punch and tone than I did back before 2007 or so when I played hard and blew reeds out all the time.
Last Edited by on May 05, 2010 6:49 PM
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nacoran
1818 posts
May 05, 2010
7:38 PM
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"Fatigue limit, endurance limit, and fatigue strength are all expressions used to describe a property of materials: the amplitude (or range) of cyclic stress that can be applied to the material without causing fatigue failure.[1] Ferrous alloys and titanium alloys [2] have a distinct limit, an amplitude below which there appears to be no number of cycles that will cause failure. Other structural metals such as aluminium and copper, do not have a distinct limit and will eventually fail even from small stress amplitudes. In these cases, a number of cycles (usually 107) is chosen to represent the fatigue life of the material."
I still want to try titanium reeds. :)
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DrCason
3 posts
May 14, 2010
12:32 AM
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Nacoran. Thanks for your info on LO's durability!
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