silverharp88
19 posts
Jul 16, 2013
4:39 PM
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that in some harmonicas the fronts are sealed up except for small circles in front? Like Kaine harps I was talking about them in another thread earlier.
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nacoran
6939 posts
Jul 16, 2013
6:17 PM
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Why not? :)
The explanation I've heard is they are more comfortable (but more of a pain to build that way), but I suspect it's more about market differentiation. In the other thread, you listed several brands, and now I know one is 'different' than the rest and if I buy a cheap harp I'll try that kind! (Hering has a harp with round holes on the front. I think they accomplish it with a face plate.)
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STME58
494 posts
Jul 17, 2013
12:31 AM
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I had an 1847 Noble in Low F ,until I lost it :-(
It had rounded sides in its machined aluminum comb. I believe they were mad by drilling into the comb from the from rather than milling from the top. I am sure that added quite a bit to the cost of the harp. I liked the way that harp played but I am not sure how much the rounded comb openings contributed.
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nacoran
6942 posts
Jul 17, 2013
1:33 AM
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Hmm, just Googled the Kaine, and actually, it's not what I was thinking. It's a long body cover that doesn't arch up in back. Instead, it has holes to vent the sound. Some tremolos are built like that. I suppose you could theoretically get more control of hand effects that way, maybe using your fingers to apply the wah to just one hole at a time. (There are some videos of SBII using his fingers at the back of his harp like he was coloring the sound, maybe muting a high note a little.) Looking around, they seem to have a pretty large line of harps. They even have a bass harp marked down to $359.
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STME58
502 posts
Jul 21, 2013
11:30 PM
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I sat down in the living room today and looked ever by the recliner and saw a black box. It turned out to be a harp case with my F 1847 Nobel in it! :-) It must have fell out of my pocket when I sat in that chair and it took a few months to work its way though the mechanism and out onto the floor. Fortunately it was in a hard plastic case and made the journey unharmed.
Now that I have in in my had I can see that it was not drilled from the front but milled with a barrel shaped cutter to give the rounded sides to the holes. Another shaped cutter was used to give the front of the comb a convex shape.
I really like the way this harp feels and plays. However, in spite of the Seydel add copy that says the 1847 cover plates are "beard and lip friendly", this is the worst harp I have for catching my beard. I don't think the covers came out as intended. They slope up at the ends creating a V that beard hairs enter and jam in. If the front of the covers stayed in the reed plate slot all the way to the end it would not have this problem.
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SuperBee
1316 posts
Jul 22, 2013
2:18 PM
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Ha! Yes that is exactly why I don't play Seydel! Well, it was the reason I never bought any more beyond the initial purchase. I quite liked the size and the comb shape, even the funny smell was strangely appetising, but I couldn't live with the way they grabbed my lip hair
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