Harp maintenance/up-keep . . . the Battle against Rust.

[Chris Pierce <pierccm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

The list has been pretty quite lately.  So I thought I'd throw this
out.

I took apart one of my harps the other day (in fact, it was my first
harp, my Hohner Pocket Pal).

This is the first time that I had taken the ENTIRE thing apart, until
then I had just removed the face plates (I didn't want to mess it up
beyond repair...which I am sure would be easy for me to do).

Any way, as I had suspected, there was a good bit of rust on the reed
plates.

Is there any GOOD way to prevent rust from accumulating on the plates
(reed or cover) and to remove rust that has accumulated that will not
adversly effect the quality of the harp (meaning, I think it would 
possibly mess up a reed if I sand papered it until all the rust was
off...altering size/shape and all that)?

Thanks in advance for any help!

BTW, George.  What's the news on news?  I still haven't seen anything
in the groups about us yet...I was guessing that the moderators of the
group (news.announce.newgroups) was just taking their time posting
it...do you have any new info?

Also, Has ANYONE heard from Joe???  Is the Harp-L tape coming along?

Just curious.

Chris
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