steve j.
30 posts
Nov 09, 2010
8:17 AM
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---------- I have 1 Old , old standby. Given to me by a friend who got it new.
It has really good sound . Big throaty , whatever the term would be. Of course the new osb are crap. What harp can give a similiar sound to the old osb? I like my Lee O ,, but the sound doesnt compare.
Steve
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MP
976 posts
Nov 09, 2010
9:06 AM
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the older old standbys are basically old marine bands with different, shallow, closed coverplates. they sound really smooth and are very comfortable to hold. the only experiment i can think of is to get a marine band and replace the coverplates with something closed like SP/20 plates.
even so, the tuning on the old harps was is 7LJI but the new hohners are compromise tuning. also, the brass they used on older old standbys and older MBs is different, (bell brass?). so are the reed profiles.
maybe the best thing to do, is just aquire more from E-bay (make sure they have a star of david on the bottom cover and hohners portrait is embossed (not etched) on the top cover)
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hope this helps.---
MP
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steve j.
31 posts
Nov 09, 2010
9:11 AM
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Thanks MP, Im hoping I can find a easily available harp thats made now, I hadnt tried spec 20 since when I just started a couple of yrs ago. I thought they didnt work good, but Ive realized now " its me, not the harp" maybe I will try them again.
when I first started I blamed the harp a lot, poor harp , it was me all along LOL
Im just hoping I can find that "tone"
Steve
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MP
977 posts
Nov 09, 2010
9:20 AM
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hey steve, actually i meant MB body W/ SP/20 coverplates. but....i withdraw that idea (the tuning and the brass on the old harps are what give them that sound..though there are modern harps in 7 limit just intonation, the brass and the coverplates are very different from the standby.
best just to hunt down e-bay for standbys.
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MP
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chromaticblues
272 posts
Nov 09, 2010
9:29 AM
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@ steve Sounds like you haven't been playing that long. I have tryed the Ebay thing! My advice would be to just buy special 20's and go to you tube and watch a couple video's about gapping reeds. As you said you tried them, but they didn't work right. It wasn't you! They don't!! I believe they are great harps when the reeds are somewhere close to where they are suppose to be! I work on a lot of these and love them when they are done, but they are so bad stock! Don't be affaid of that though. Once you do it and get it right it makes playing the harp more fun and then your incharge of your harps not the other way around!
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MP
979 posts
Nov 09, 2010
9:41 AM
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here's another idea, have chromaticblues soup-up a harp for you. he's running a special this week.
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MP
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doctor of semiotics
superhero emeritus
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