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  • Boris Plotnikov 

    JDR Assassin is the top diatonic model in the JDR line.

    I do not know how they achieved this, but I actually switched from custom German harmonicas (over each of which I spent 10 hours sitting under a microscope and removing air loss) to factory Assassins.

    All overblow and overdraw are easy available and controllable out of the box, the bend are easy. I'm not going to lie - I'm doing some easy setup to my taste, but it doesn't take more than half an hour now. I haven't fixed any gaps in most of my Assassins, I haven't made any embossings or tuning, and I've already played several concerts on them.

    Moreover, I tried to make a full custom on the Assassin - I embossed it completely (although there is almost nothing to emboss, literally in some places), polished the reedplate, sealed the covers.

    In general, I did everything that I did on the Germans - I’ve found a certain increase in response (10-15 percent subjectively), but I like the sound without customization more so I made a strong-willed decision that I didn't want to do this nonsense customizing anymore and would play Assassins out of the box.

    Assassin 

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