SEYDEL Harmonica Tool Set

What kind of tools are included in the SEYDEL Harmonica Tool Set?

What can you do with the tools?

Foldable magnifying glass 8x

Check all changes you have applied to the reeds and avoid fatal mistakes when setting up your beloved instruments. This practical tool is easy to use and offers 8x magnification (glass lens and metal frame, case included).

This extremely compact and practical screwdriver offers the right bit for every screw that can be found on any type of harmonica from all manufacturers (4x different bits for Phillips head screws and 4x different bits for slotted head screws).

With this tool you can center reeds in the reed slot (left part) and with the tip on the other side (right part) you can support and plink reeds.  “Plinking” of reeds is necessary to adjust the offset and settle a reed in its final position.

With this tool, it is possible to narrow the air slots on the reed plates of a harmonica. This technique - often referred to as “embossing” or “sizing” - improves the overall airtightness of a harmonica and therefore enhances the tone response. Of course, you can also use this tool as a normal key fob.

With the 32 metal "blades" of different thicknesses on this measuring tool, you can easily define reed offsets. This is a practical way to reset the reeds so that they are adjusted like before tuning them or after curving. The measurable distances range from 0.04 mm to 0.88 mm (0.0015 inch to 0.035 inch). The metal sheets can also be used to give a reed a support while tuning it - or to adjust the reed curve.

With this tool, it is possible to apply fine curves to reeds in order to make them closing more airtight. It is also used to straighten out excessive reed curves. The rounded tip allows you to adjust the reed curves without disassembling the reedplates of the instrument. For valving it is helpful to apply tiny amounts glue to the reedplate.

Extremely durable, solvent-free glue especially for valving harmonicas (transparent, 20g). You can use a toothpick to apply tiny amounts of this gel-like glue to the reedplate, or you can use the rounded tip of the curving tool for this purpose.

You can easily fine-tune your instruments with this semicircular steel file - but if you want to completely retune your harmonica or use a certain special tuning, we recommend our >electric grinder, which is more effective and careful.

With these tweezers, you can effortlessly apply new key stickers on your instruments. They can also be used to adjust new valves on chromatic instruments: a) you can remove adhesive residue with the flat tip end and b) the tweezers help to position the delicate valves exactly along the air slot and to place them precisely on the glue point.

These scissors can be used to shorten valves very precisely to change their stiffness (shortening the supporting foil of the reed) or to shorten them if they are a little too long after gluing.

You can use this diamond-coated file (semicircular) to deburr any sharp edges on metal parts of your instruments or to create rounded corners on edgy reed plates.

This tool set includes access to a short video in which the individual tools are presented. The video will give you a good idea of how to use the tools and how they work. A comprehensively written instructional pdf with lots of theoretical knowledge about the physics of reeds can be found on the USB stick included with the >Seydel Setup Tool.