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From: Snaru~OL.COM
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 17:32:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Buzzing CX-12 Reed

Hello Rob,

I'm pleased to hear that you are satisfied with your thicker CX reed plates a
lot of CX players will agree.

Vern has already given you an in-depth help how to overcome your buzzing
G-blow. So, I only would like to add some of my experiences with this second
largest chrom problem next to sticking slides.

Last week a visited the Frankfurter Music Fair and talked with Hohner also
about the numerous problems with the CX 12 windsavers. Yep, they have
realized this too but to do something against are two different pairs of
shoes.

In most cases the outerplaced windsavers of the innerplaced blow reeds are
buzzing. You can see this by using a razor mirror when playing the reed in
question. The buzzing is caused when the two plys stick together, no
question. If you have ascertained such a real 'miscreant', you can do as Vern
has adviced. Additionally, you can do some searching why just this blow
buzzes and not another. To find the reasons is always adviceable, instead of
sending the harp back to the factory for repairing which is a rather
unreasonable measure.

A curled windsaver is the main reason but also straight ones can buzz. When
you compare the windsavers, you will notice that the shorter clear plys are
not proportional shorter to the white plys. There are some plastic plys which
have almost the same length as the white paper plys.

In such cases the consequences are obvious. The wet paper ply sticks in
almost its whole length to the plastic ply resulting a fine buzzing unit. I
simply took a little scissors and cut off so much of the plastic ply until
the adhesion was somewhat below its 'rebending force'.

Vern said it just the other way round:

>Don't be alarmed if the clear ply doesn't touch the
>white ply along its whole length.<

Absolutely, it's even worse.

These paper tigers are in fact a real weak spot of chroms and demand a very
cautious handling to adjust or replace them.

A lot more could be said but John Frazer has already a full-time job to study
long windednesses that I forget the rest.

Snaruhn