Help on finding Hohner Morino Artiste IX D Read Block Part

[yc360]

Thanks, Mr. De Bra! Always great to hear the details behind the surface! I do love the N very much. The shallow travel on the treble buttons is completely new to me and I am yet to get used to but I do love it. Just that it is somehow not the Morino sound I was expecting with my limited experience. The shallow travel does allows much easier double octave jump for me. So I do appreciate that. Hack, I have to admit, I just love Morino, old or new ...

 

[tonyg]

yc360,

The new information you added regarding your attempt to fix the problem could be significant, but maybe it's not a big deal. Is it possible to put up a photo of the damage that you feel you caused? Or, send me an e-mail with the necessary photos... It's probably not as bad as you think.
I don't want to breach any of the forum protocols, but I'd be happy to work on it for you. I'll include my e-mail address and if that's a problem I'm sure the forum administrator will let me know.

tonyg
<EMAIL email="agrieco@nycap.rr.com">agrieco@nycap.rr.com</EMAIL>

 

[yc360]

Hi Tonyg,

Thanks for the encouragement and the offer. Please find the relevant photos at the beginning of this thread that I have posted. I'll email you for your advise. Thanks!

 

[yc360]

With all of your experts' advise and encouragement, I settled down and worked on the slide all afternoon, with a 6" vise as the flat base and little rubber mallet, plus a pair of high magnifying glasses, I got it reasonably flat and straight. What I couldn't do with those, fine grade sand paper came to the rescue. Finally after hours of intense labor, I put it back, held my breath, and voila! The slide is still somewhat stickier than the good one but it does fit back in the reed block and my musette is back in full force!

Thinking back last time I didn't anticipate the fragile nature of this work and lost my nerve when I couldn't get the slide to fit back in. Applying brutal force only got the matter worse. So I panicked :hb . The advise I got from here and Brian from the local metal shop led me to greater patience and much gentler and finer approach to this. The aluminum slide turns out to be much more flexible and sturdier than I thought. I'll be a lot more careful with these little pieces inside the box from now on. The overall solid construction and quality material used in this good old Morino also helped me a lot to save the day. As some pointed out, putting the slide inside the reed block does make the older Morino more fragile and prone to potential problem when working on the reed blocks. The newer Morino XI N has all the slides hidden underneath and separated from the reed blocks. So it's a lot safer to tinker with the reeds in this regard.

Now I have to take a deeper breath and work on revitalizing the half dead bassoon reeds of the XI N! But I am really glad my favorite Scottish musette Morino iv m is back in business! Thank you all! :ch :b

 

[Soulsaver]

Glad it worked out for you, I hope it stays fixed. Well done.

 

[yc360]

That's my hope, too! Thanks