HawkeyeKane
1287 posts
Dec 12, 2012
7:26 AM
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I got a newsletter from Seydel this morning. One thing in it that jumped out at me was this:
The caption:
"New: The SEYDEL SESSION STEEL Special Winter Edition
Winters in Klingenthal are strong and usually long. This might be one reason that for centuries the people in this region find the time to consistently create superior musical instruments. Like the new SEYDEL SESSION STEEL Special Winter Edition!
In addition to its superior technical reliability and perfect playability, it has a new visual appearance: we call it “sparkling”. The new comb is made of ABS plastic and combines with the approved Seydel Stainless Steel reeds to provide a great sound - which, by the way, should last much longer than this offer, since the Special Winter Edition will only be available as long as we have winter here."
Hey all you folks who harped about the "ugly" orange comb....looks like you finally had a Christmas wish come true! ;-)
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Hawkeye Kane
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HarpNinja
2974 posts
Dec 12, 2012
7:44 AM
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I have an A SS with 1847 covers. I put an order in for one of these new combs. You can get black combs for the SS, which I've used before too.
Regardless of color, I sand/polish them to look like polished Corian. This takes the screen printing off, which I also like to do.
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HawkeyeKane
1288 posts
Dec 12, 2012
8:03 AM
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@Mike
Yeah...I just took a couple of blown out Blues Sessions and put SS reedplates in them. Unfortunately for me...they didn't last very long. Still slightly miffed, but then again, probably only have my poor breath technique to blame for it. Wish that Hohner would get on board and start making steel reeds, for God sake!
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Hawkeye Kane
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1847
408 posts
Dec 12, 2012
8:34 AM
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what would be even better is
if seydel would make a marine band sized harmonica with steel reeds!
i use my weltmeister combs
replacing the covers with 1847 coverplates
they last a very long time
very nice sound also
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nacoran
6279 posts
Dec 12, 2012
4:30 PM
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Sparkling! Do any customizers make sparkling combs? As a kid I may have accidentally played a few games of Dungeons & Dragons and they had sparkly, sparkly clear, swirly, swirly clear and glow in the dark dice that all would probably translate well into comb colors.
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Rollingstone
4 posts
Dec 25, 2012
10:53 AM
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I know I am a bit behind with this but does anyone know if the winter edition is being sold in the uk?
I hope you are all enjoying the holidays.
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
1451 posts
Dec 26, 2012
2:54 AM
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I know Hetrick has been selling them with black combs standard, but there's been the option for orange combs and now grey as well, along with the various options for coverplates, brass, conical steel, frosted, etc. I've also been building some with the grey combs for Hetrick. Seydel's pictures don't really do them justice. They are grey, but are sprinkly-looking, like falling snow - like when you go outside at night and turn on a very bright porch light.
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David
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bigd
402 posts
Dec 26, 2012
9:00 PM
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I wanted to like my sessions and did not care about the orange comb at all. I have a Low C and a Low F# that are not very responsive (airy) relative to my other low harps: Golden Melodys and Special 20's (they did make low GM's at one time) which are gapped in a play-ably responsive way....d
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
1452 posts
Dec 27, 2012
7:45 PM
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Nate, Matt Smart has some sparkling Corian combs and the Evanwood is sparkly.
Randy Sandoval might have some sparklies, too, and Randy also does great work. It's really hard to tell in pics that a comb is sparkly. I've got an Evanwood from Matt that I played for a while, then had it outside one day and noticed it looked like it had gold dust in the material.
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David
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At the time of his birth, it was widely accepted that no one man could play that much music so well or raise that much hell. He proved them all wrong.
R.I.P. H. Cecil Payne
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David
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Pistolcat
345 posts
Dec 28, 2012
11:21 AM
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Nate, when you say "as a kid" do you then really mean "last week"? ;) Me too. Here's one for the die hard die-gamers http://youtu.be/54VJWHL2K3I
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A440
63 posts
Feb 10, 2013
1:37 PM
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I just had a look at these on Seydel's website. It addition to the color change, they also appear to have slightly different hole geometry.
Has anyone tried the Winter Editions?
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