Re: Maintenance Question

["Stephen Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

Jimbeau

I wanted to sound "can-do" about fixing busted reeds first and foremost.  
I'm about the world's worst bodger - great at knocking things down but 
useless at constructing anything.   But just in case anyone hasn't found the 
following yet I have to recommend very strongly Pat Missin's "Altered States 
2.2" files which can be downloaded for free from   
http://www.patmissin.com/tunings/tunings.html  He is incredibly 
down-to-earth even though, unlike me, he hasn't discovered the joys *ahem* 
of Araldite yet!  Anyone doing their own tuning or reed-changing will find 
this invaluable.

Steve Shaw



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>From: "Jimbeau Harp" <jimbeauharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: moorcot@xxxxxxx, harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Maintenance Question
>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:04:38 +0000
>
>>From: "Stephen Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>
>>
>>I found that I can quite readily change a reed in Special 20s and in my 
>>Echo double-reeded harps using just what's in the Lee Oskar tool kit, a 
>>small punch and a small hammer.
>
>snip
>
>>Thank goodness I've got that off my chest.  It's a kind of coming-out.
>
>Stephen.
>
>Great post. You should share more thoughts like this on Harp-L.
>
>I'm inspired to start banging away on some of my own harps. I have a box of 
>harps with one dead reed, so I have plenty of materials on hand.
>
>Thanks for the motivation.
>
>Jimbeau
>
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