Beeswax Mouthpiece Loud

Beeswax Mouthpiece Loud

There is a vast amount of cognition allround the world with regards to how to make the harmonica sound better and play better, but little of it is written down. This entirely illustrated book solves the problem. It holds subsections on: how to buy a harmonica, mutual problems, counsel with regards to tools and proficiencies for using them, the basic constituents of the chromatic harmonica, solutions to improve sound and functionality, experimenting on old harmonicas, tuning, and much more. For chromatic players, but diatonic players will learn just as much.

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24 of 25 humans found the following review helpful.
Essential book for harmonica maintenance
By Scott McKenzie
Poor instruments was the major impediment to my capacity to play harmonica. This book taught me how to turn a bad instrument into a outstanding instrument and my achievements as a musician have jumped ahead. This is a great book by a master of the subject. The book has two sections. One division for simple and easy things to do to improve the chromatic harmonica. These require only basic tools and experience. I’ve applied almost all of Doug’s simple modifications and they make an enormous difference. The other half of the book takes you deep into the jungle of customisation and is very complex but explained cautiously and thoughtfully. The second half of the book will keep my busy for years and years. This is the most comprehensive book I’ve seen on maintenance and customisation of chromatic harmonicas.

Doug is a well known and valued expert on harmonica improvements and customisation and construction. He has made and customised harmonicas for Larry Adler (who writes a forward for this book) and is often providing internet newsgroups with his magnificent advice. A perfective associate to this book is Doug’s other book “Play the harmoinca well” which teaches you how to play the harmonica – once you’ve employed THIS book to make the instrument work properly!

15 of 16 persons found the following review helpful.
Good reference, but…
By Sheldon
I got this book because a couple of my harmonicas weren’t working all that well, and I thought the book would support me get them back into shape. Much of the info here is available on the Net for free, and repairing and tuning a harmonica is like attempting to write the Bible on a grain of rice. It may be done, but it’s extremly difficult and time consuming.

If you have a lot more time than money, this book “might” aid you out. However, while you may be capable to repair your car, build a deck, and even carry out brain surgery, you’ll soon find that repairing and tuning a harmonica is not as easy as this book makes it appear, disregarding of how much forbearance you have.

I give it three stars because it’s informative, but those harmonicas I wanted to fix still aren’t, and I’m commonly very good at stuff like this.

10 of 10 humans found the following review helpful.
Somewhat useful…
By Michael J Edelman
Although it’s not at all clear from the title or description, most of this book is with regards to the cleaning and customization of chromatic harminicas- the imagination ones with the slide- and not the simple diatonic harps that most people play. Some of the info is utile to diatonioc players, but most is not.

The chromatic data is useful, but of more or less uneven quality and style. Tuning- one of the most utile mods a player may do- is covered in a very superficial manner. Some of the mods, like reshaping the internal channels in the comb, are discussed at length without a lot of comprehensible statement was to why one mught want to bother. And a great deal of mods are staged with only the barest oif details- surely not sufficient to insure that the tyro doesn’t desctroy an costly harmonica while learning how.

As one reviewer has noted, far more selective information is out there on the web awaiting only a quick Google search. I’d do that before I considered buying this book.

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