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From: Hugh Messenger
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 13:18:18 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: No sound on 9 draw

On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Eric Mallow wrote:

> Yesterday I bought a Marine Band in the key of D.
> I am unable to get any sound on 9 draw alone, but it
> sounds fine when I do a 9/10 combined draw. If I do
> the 9/10 draw, I can then ease over to the 9 alone,
> whereupon the 9 sounds OK, even if I stop and try the

Sounds like the 9 draw reed is gapped too close. Whip the cover plates
off (or just the draw side, if you can work out which one it is!), and
take a look. If the 9 draw reed looks like it lays closer to the reed
plate than the rest, get back to us and harp-l will tell you how to fix
it (very simple procedure, but lengthy to describe).

Think of the "gap" as the space between the free swinging tip of the reed
and the reed plate, i.e. how much the reed is bent "up" when at rest.
This gap (which should taper from low to high notes, so hole 1 reeds
have bigger gaps than hole 10 reeds) determines various characteristics of
how the instrument plays. One such characteristic is how hard you can
attack the note before it "freezes". If a gap is way too small, any
"attack" at all will freeze the reed into soundlessness.

-- hugh