jim
459 posts
Nov 20, 2010
3:20 PM
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Detailed instruction with pictures and video can be found here:
http://harperclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=89
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Last Edited by on Nov 20, 2010 3:20 PM
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swampboy
30 posts
Nov 20, 2010
3:36 PM
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Why?
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Micha
140 posts
Nov 20, 2010
3:54 PM
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Nice,
But why wouldn't you just settle with the Solist Pro 12?
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nacoran
3275 posts
Nov 20, 2010
3:59 PM
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Because it was there!
edit- For the Stainless Steel!?
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Last Edited by on Nov 20, 2010 4:01 PM
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nacoran
3276 posts
Nov 20, 2010
4:05 PM
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Could you just put a couple Big Sixes together? And maybe use a Blues Favorite cover (long body)?
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Last Edited by on Nov 20, 2010 4:06 PM
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GermanHarpist
1851 posts
Nov 20, 2010
4:19 PM
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Nice stuff, jim! I like it. It's a pitty, that there wasn't another solution to avoid the gap at the front... maybe you could solder the two reedplates (toxic?) and make them one..?
Anyway, one thing was missing... a sound sample :)
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jim
460 posts
Nov 20, 2010
4:48 PM
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As you can see it's not tuned yet and there's even a reed missing... I've quickly made a video as soon as I've done all "exterior" work.
Took me approx. 11hours. Parts cost about 90€.
You can't use a standard Solist pro12 reedplate because the top reeds are narrower there.
With Big Sixes, you can't get a Low C :)
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nacoran
3277 posts
Nov 20, 2010
5:02 PM
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Ok, so the next step is carefully cutting covers to cover an even longer harp! Lets see, get a low low F and put it together with a regular F...
F2-F6!
or
C3-C7!
:)
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jim
461 posts
Nov 20, 2010
5:10 PM
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Very easy: I have an LC 12-hole chrom and now a 12-hole diatonic in the same tuning - and also LC. I'm a happy man :)
PS. Don't ask me to make you one like this - it's so time-consuming that it would cost mare than a chromatic :)
PS2. The top reedplate part was given to me by my friend Sergei who made an "A" big six by cutting 1-6 holes of a 1847 :) So I did it vice versa.
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wheezer
177 posts
Nov 21, 2010
2:31 AM
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Great stuff Jim. I love the ingenuity of it!
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jim
463 posts
Nov 21, 2010
11:19 AM
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update: you can certainly cut the reedplates after hole 6. You'll have an idea where the center of the instrument is. Basically you can mark any hole like this.
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