Very Small Reeds

[Noel Ways]

Scroll down to the end of this link and you will see some very interesting and very small reeds.

 

http://www.philharmonicas.com/philharmonicas.html

 

The accompanying videos by Philharmonicas demonstrate the quality of the reeds.

 

I am curious if concertina makers think that such reeds deserve consideration for use in possibly piccolo concertinas, or otherwise ?!?!

Edited February 16, 2018 by Noel Ways

[ritonmousquetaire]

I was thinking about harmonica reeds as well the other day; I saw an octave-tuned (two holes per note, sounding one octave apart) "echo" hohner concertina, and was amazed by its lowest sounding reed : the same low E I have on my stagi anglo (which sounds one octave lower than most concertinas I believe). To hear that note played on such a small instrument made me wonder if these reeds could be used on a concertina - would it be possible to design small instruments with a great range using them?

[Chris Ghent]

Are the small reeds any smaller than those at the dog whistle end of a Wheatstone extended treble EC..?