why do some italian companies use foreign voices like Harmoikas instead of italian ones? are harmonikas good?
Reeds Harmonikas
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Titlbach has some of the most modern production techniques (like electroerosion) The Czech Republic is kind of a traditional place for mechanical engineering. "Hand-made" and "hand-finished" imply fiddling with the material until you get good results. Titlbach's high quality reeds may be done without much human intervention, but they tend to be quite consistent with very narrow tolerances. Not comparable really to what "machine reeds" at one point of time were like.
Sebastian Bravo
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I´ve tried bandoneon reeds produced by harmonikas and they sound REALLY good and loud, compared to original bandoneon reeds. As dak said, their high technology standards produce great machine reeds. I`ve never tried accordion ones, but in the website they look great.
Harmonikas (supposedly) make the bayan reed plates used by one of the Jupiter factories. They use the most modern equipment in reed production. I wouldn't be surprised if a number of Italian accordion makers were "silently" using Harmonikas reeds already, even in higher end instruments. There are quite a few accordions being produced where the reeds have no marking of their maker... and I have been wondering who made these reeds.
Surely that's an oxymoron...
More so with critical wood working ("critical" meaning that it is vital to follow the grain in order to optimize the properties, like with tone wood in string instruments). Metal work tends to be more predictable and has a lot less variation across work pieces, so you can optimize a process instead of individual work pieces.
Not at all.
I am old enough to remember the discussions centred around the machine made wristwatches introduced to the market by the likes of Seiko in Japan.
"Couldn't possibly match the quality and precision of handmade Swiss products."
Sorry to disturb your delusions, but precision machine manufacturing can exceed the abilities of the human hand - and ear - which it has been doing for well over half a century in some fields.
"handmade" makes a difference when processes are not entirely predictable and when the sensors the machine may use for the control of the process don't really match the human senses (it doesn't help if they are much more precise when the category they are precise at is only loosely related to how our senses establish differences in quality).
. . And then came the LCD digital watch. At one time, Seiko favored the mechanical watch. They soon learned the digital watch was here to stay. A "paradigm shift" was happening. . .
