Happy Holidays! If you found 2016 a mess of a year I can relate… Sometimes clearing the path for the creative musical life is a twisted journey & this year was one of the craziest rides yet… In fact, 2016 just might be the weirdest year I’ve ever lived through and
I would like to reflect today on how terrible I was for a few years at tuning harmonicas. I have come up with a short list of some of the really dumb things I have done when tuning harmonicas. There are plenty more mistakes that I don’t have space or
It Hertz to Have No Cents I am in the process of reading through about 60 pages of feedback, ideas, and questions on harmonica technology and music- notes copied and pasted from your emails into a word document. Thank you for this overload to my questionnaire! While I was studying
Click on the link below to see the video: tuning fixture
I just got an email from a slightly nervous new customer. He just got his custom harmonicas and did not want to play them in a way that would damage them. His question was: what is the best way to break in a custom harmonica? I don’t believe you need
I created this PDF with working links as a way of answering some frequently asked questions about screws and nuts, tool sources, and other basic questions. Enjoy! www.rsleigh.com/RSHarpResources.pdf
Reed Replacement with rivet This is a video that I made for one of my harp tech students. It is a little rough, but shows some of my tricks of the trade. I could not figure out how to make this video fit in this screen and look professional. You
Here are the instructions for my tool kit, plus an article on my tools by Kinya Pollard. Some of the tools have changed, but the basics of using the tools are still the same. Tool kit Instructions Kinya Pollards Article
What is Just Intonation? I know how to tune a harmonica. That is easy for me. Understanding what I am doing and explaining it to someone else is a totally different thing. There is something about this subject that makes me a little bit crazy. I keep wanting nice, simple
Click on the Headline above (YouTube Harmonica Tuning Videos) and you will find four links to my YouTube Harmonica Tuning Tutorials. You will find a crash course in tuning harmonicas – Enjoy!