Harmonica Restoration | Blue's Harp | M. HOHNER
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- čas přidán 25. 12. 2019
- Earlier this week we restored our grandpa's old harmonica. We took it apart, sanded and shined up the pieces, and put it all back together.
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What two grades of sandpaper did you use. Missing some attaching screws, what size and where do I find them??
I am not your grandpa! That's my first harp, a 1968 Bflat Blues Harp, except mine's held together with dental floss. You had to soak them, to close the gaps, but the swelled wood ripped your lips. I plan to make my own replacement comb, from a composite cutting board, extended to take wider new stainless BH cover plates. May not add to my Rocket stable, but restoring the plates, tuning and gapping, may remind me where I started - how can it be over fifty years, and seeing Sonny and Brownie, Muddy and Butter and Cotton, then of course, Norton, live. Musselwhite and McCoy are about the only ones left, and Levy's a savant, but devoid of any blues bones.
This restore seems incomplete; re-using the rusting steel pins and covers is a shame, and sealing the comb is essential to preservation and improving the resonance, versus dry old wood. I don't hang old bikes on the wall for ornaments. I expect to play my old harp again, not just scrape rust off and stare at it. Old covers can be gently reshaped as the metal is thin, then polishing with Flitz, but if the rust is too thick using rust remover first is the only hope; it takes the chrome off the rest of the way, and re-chroming costs far more than new cover plates, but the dimensions are not the same with replacements, hence my Frankenharp modding. Stainless covers = best improvement in 100 years, then resin /plastic over cheap wood combs.
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I like the pre-MS series harmonicas like this. As a player I'm more inclined to try swap out the comb with a new one and convert it for screws. It makes it easier to do maintenance down the road, but there is something to be said about keeping it original.
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Can you tell me where I can get the screws, nuts, and nails for repairing my harmonicas?? I recently bought 38 working harmonics from a guy on Craigslist and there's about 10 more that are missing the nails and screws to hold them together.. Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Ok, one more thing.. What can I use to clean up the covers on the harps??
I actually have the same harmonica since I was around 10 years old ^^; Still works, but one tone or two didn't work properly
Thanks for this video! What was the lubricant you used and the grade of sandpaper? I’m going to give it a try on a old harp I picked up at a garage sale. Do you happen to have a list of materials/tools you use?
Was it playable afterwards or are you simply keeping it as a memento?
Karyl Miller he has started to learn piano man on it
Dang dude I'm surprised you have any fingers left the way you wield that razor blade..can not watch...sorry.
You sure the harmonica restoration is a succsess ...can the harmonica even play one clean note...?that was terible...harmonicas are very sensetive instrument
The reeds and reed plates are. Flat sanding the underside of the draw plate is actually something customizers do. It makes the reed plate sit flatter against the comb, making the harmonica more airtight.
I restore in the garbage sometimes. New. They are.not tune especialy honher. Thy are garbage