I recently took the reedplates from a very nice playing Special 20 and put them on a Rocket comb. The harp became very difficult to play. The reeds were gapped pretty close so I opened them up a bit and now it plays just fine. Is this because of the larger holes/reed chambers allow more air flow over the reeds in the Rocket? Thanks! Jay ---------- Music speaks where words fail.
Sounds reasonable. Maybe a bit of a more airtight fit generally. So effectively applying more air pressure with the same relative breath force than on the original comb. Interesting observation
Last Edited by SuperBee on Mar 27, 2015 9:00 PM
I took a set of new "Hohner" Rocket reed plates and installed them in a Special 20 comb and then put a set of Turbo Lids on it and it is one more sweet playing harp, one of my top 5 now :) Turbo Lids will also fit on Manji harmonicas, you will need to take out the top reed plate screw in the middle but they make the Manji sound a lot better to me :)
