Home / Forums / Vintage Melodicas / Vintage Hohner Melodica Professional restoration — need a reed / Reply To: Vintage Hohner Melodica Professional restoration — need a reed Reply To: Vintage Hohner Melodica Professional restoration — need a reed May 6, 2018 at 6:01 pm #9857 ClepParticipant Will do! In terms of getting out the old reed: sounds like the way to do it is to carefully cut/chip/scrape it out, as opposed to warming the old/brittle wax?