Organize Your Reeds!

Below is a link to a PDF with a new, improved reed chart for finding repair reeds for Hohner Classic diatonic harmonicas:

Organize Your Reeds!

One of my goals in life is to help close the gap between maintaining harmonicas and maintaining guitars. Everyone who plays guitar knows how to change a string. Most people who play harmonica don’t change reeds, because there are a lot more problems to deal with than changing a string on a guitar.

The booklet above with the reed chart is one step in the direction of closing that gap. Progress is always possible!

I made this chart years ago and have been giving it away to people who join my list as part of a booklet titled “The Marine Band Field Spotters Guide”

It shows all the reeds that are interchangeable on Hohner reed plates in the “hand made” or classic series from lo D to high G.

The PDF above includes a page you can print out and cut to make a guide, so you can look at one column at a time. I found that looking at the chart without some kind of ruler or guide gave me a headache, so I figured I was not the only one who reacted this way.

Leave a comment if you have any feedback, questions or ideas on how to make this guide better.