Reply To: La Clavietta Stainless Steel Reed

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Alan Brinton
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Can someone advise me on how to extract a reed from one these Italian melodicas without damaging it? Removing and replacing an individual reed is not something I’ve attempted, but I may have one I could send David in my pile of Italian melodicas.

I have been comparing the Clavietta reeds with those of the 25 key Italians more closely. They are of comparable size. In other words, at least some of the small Italians do not have smaller reeds than the Clavietta. I had been just assuming that they did, but in terms of size and material, they don’t appear to be different. I have not been able to make meaningful sound comparisons because my Claviettas are so leaky. There are lots of these reeds out there to be harvested by anyone who’d like to build a melodica around them. They are very durable.

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