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From: jfraz~cusd.edu ("Harmonica" John Frazer)
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 07:32:24 -0800
Subject: Re: blues tools rack mania

At 1:10 AM 10/8/96, Steve & Anne Price wrote:
> Harp-l's Jim Rossen suggested a fix for the rack after he
>examined my problems with it, and I'm part way there. Following Jim's
>direction if not his suggestion exactly, I've now moved the part that
>holds the harmonica and screws into the swiss cheese triangle
>pieces of metal to the top hole of the swiss cheese. Itilt the triangle
>away from meand angle the harp back toward me and the angle is correct
>and I do not have the sharp part pressing in my chest. However, I'll
>need to fabricate (and you can bet I'm a pro at this) a piece of metal
>that will attach to the swiss cheese and to the head piece to make the
>angle solid.

Sounds like what I didn't want to do. BTW If you slightly cock the harp in
the holder so that the back lip of the top cover plate is under the top
bar, this helps the angle.

It almost sounds like Mark Pasin needs to make a tipper retrofit kit to
allow us to use his rack without altering it.

>
> I'm therefore concluding that part of the problem all along has
>been that the part that goes around the neck to the joints that pivot the
>triangle pieces of metal is too short for some people and that that
>length should also have been made adjustable (which shouldn't be hard at
>all. By tilting the triangle pieces straight out and making the top hole
>the fulcrum of the swivel, I'm in essence extending the neck piece
>another two inches or so. Then the swivel pieces end up adjusting the
>height a bit and the angle, but the real angle part is pushed out a
>couple of inches. If I can make this configuration work, I'll say that
>this badly designed piece is still better than the generic ones, the
>Hohners, the Lee Oskars, and that it's badly designed.

Actually, if they work on the slipping problem, they would be ok.

If I can't get
>this configuration to work I'll probably still use it as it is better
>than the above mentioned despite all these flaws.
>
>Bloody frustrating, but like Harmonica John, I can't afford to screw
>around with it not working at all, and at an almost angle, its weight and
>stability are still of value. Too bad this is turning to my fall term
>project in Shop. It should have been somebody else's.

Absolutely correct. We should get a free sample of the new prototype rack
for our approval so that we can decide whether it is correct or not. you
don't suppose that he is arrogant enough to suggest we learn to play
untipped, do you? Playing that way strains my neck.
>
hj

- -- "He has some kind of fantastic instrument that lets out a death sound!"

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