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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #120 on: June 13, 2019, 02:32:52 PM »

The bass mech. of the club 3bs comes out in one lump pretty easily. It has two dowels on the bottom to locate it back into the exact same place for refitting. I dismantled mine to fit another horizontal rod in a spare position at the top + an extra bass button.
  This required extending the bass reedblock for the extra reeds, anyway it worked.  :Ph
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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #121 on: June 25, 2019, 01:02:16 AM »

Wow!  I have now restricted the treble key movement on my “NOS” 60’s Pokerwork (the one I swap from A/D to C#/D) and can’t believe how much more elegant the playing experience has become!  It simultaneously cured most of the pallet clatter, too!  I used a strip of balsa wood, with a bit of leather when it seemed a bit loose.  All of a sudden, it is faster and easier for repeats, etc.  Now, I just gotta dry her out a bit, and she’s a keeper.  I am still trying to figure out whether to use her mostly in semitone mode, but now she’s A/D and the G scale is coming along.

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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #122 on: August 02, 2019, 07:32:44 PM »

And, sooner late than never, Tuning


https://youtu.be/xy8dizq8Tks

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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #123 on: August 02, 2019, 11:46:16 PM »

Excellent as always Lester and I agree that the Italian method of reed lifting (with a hook) isn't a good as the German method (with a thin pointy thing to 'flip' the reed) but going up through the bass of the reed block to lift the inner reed is the most effective and safest method with the blocks out of the box.
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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #124 on: August 03, 2019, 01:37:28 AM »

Whether you use the German style or Italian style reed lifter is a personal thing and some people prefer one and some prefer the other.

Personally, I prefer the Italian hook reed lifter method. It is very useful when you are doing the final fine tuning inside the box, especially when there are multiple reed blocks close together with restricted room. The secret of using the hook method is (i) to ensure the reed blocks and instrument are steady and don't wobble around and (ii) to have the correct size of reed lifter hook. 

The lifters sold by Charlie Marshall are OK for the larger reeds but too coarse for the intermediate and smaller reeds. So I make my own hooks from saxophone blue steel needle springs - available from woodwind repair suppliers (e.g. here). The longer ones about 6 cm long are ideal. These come with a sharp point at one end and blunt on the other. The pointy end is pushed into a wood dowel handle and the other end formed into a 'J' hook using round-nosed pliers. The distance between the tip of the 'J' and the shank (i.e. the diameter of the semicircular end) should be the same as the distance between centres of the slots in the reed plates, otherwise you will have trouble lining up the hook in the right position to lift the reed tongue.

The saxophone spring steel is a fine narrow gauge but also strong and resilient; in use it doesn't distort out of shape easily. Just as with the German-style reed lifter, it takes a bit of practice to learn how to use the hook lifter properly and efficiently, but once you've got the knack it is very quick indeed.

Diatonix has a video showing how the Italian hook is used here, starting at 4:00 minutes in.
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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #125 on: August 21, 2019, 11:55:24 AM »

For ease of reference I have made a web page with all the videos and up and coming ones here


https://sites.google.com/view/hohnerhotrod


Also in my signature block below.

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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #126 on: August 21, 2019, 12:08:54 PM »

Looks like there are some interesting things coming up Lester!  :D
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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #127 on: August 21, 2019, 02:56:16 PM »

For ease of reference I have made a web page with all the videos and up and coming ones here
https://sites.google.com/view/hohnerhotrod
Also in my signature block below.

Any chance of a link on the home page, chaps?
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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #128 on: August 22, 2019, 05:10:37 AM »

Hear! Hear!
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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #129 on: August 22, 2019, 09:07:33 AM »

Any chance of a link on the home page, chaps?


Now available as  pinned post here


http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php/topic,24371.0.html

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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #130 on: September 04, 2019, 05:02:42 PM »

Two new videos added


Bass and Chord Tuning
Taping off Thirds


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Re: Hot Rod your Hohner
« Reply #131 on: September 04, 2019, 06:25:38 PM »

Thanks
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