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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Ideas for changing a diatonic harp tuning on the fly
- Replies: 7
- Views: 29
Re: Ideas for changing a diatonic harp tuning on the fly
Hello Dominico and welcome to the forum! If you want a way to instantly swap the reeds of a single hole in a diatonic, would it be an option to simply include an extra hole and use some mechanism to block the hole you don't want? This would make the harp longer, but maybe if it's just one or two hol...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Spiral, then Dmin/Cmaj
- Replies: 7
- Views: 287
Re: Spiral, then Dmin/Cmaj
5ᵗʰ postition does look a bit tricky, but what do you think about 6ᵗʰ position? In the top octave the B would be a half-step bend, but in its first octave, from the first B I think it looks better.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: creating my own AutoValve
- Replies: 3
- Views: 106
Re: creating my own AutoValve
Interestingly enough, the Fanfare-S from Seydel may be precisely what you're describing... It's a Tremolo harmonica built around the body of the Seydel De Luxe Steel chromatic. The slider is removed, and just the mouthpiece remains, and the two reedplates are both tuned to the same key. If you are ...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 11:36 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Blow and draw reeds an octave apart
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5920
Re: Blow and draw reeds an octave apart
For these sorts of experiments, a modular reed harp really is the way to go. If you just want to try out how the two reeds will behave in one hole though, you could, as I said, make do with an ordinary sandwich-type harmonica just holding the plates in place with your finger. Let us hear how it work...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 11:45 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Blow and draw reeds an octave apart
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5920
Re: Blow and draw reeds an octave apart
I haven't noticed any problems with notes one or even two octaves apart. The only issue I could foresee might be if the Helmholtz resonance of of a longer chamber interferes with the higher note, but I haven't experienced it myself. Because the notes are so far apart, there is no interactive reed be...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 5:23 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: What is a reasonable level of intonation of chords?
- Replies: 0
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What is a reasonable level of intonation of chords?
Alternative title: What is the smallest difference from equal temperament that you find acceptable for nice chords? When fine tuning a harmonica, one faces the decision of whether one wants to prioritise melody playing in many keys or nice, pure-sounding chords in one key. In the former case, one tr...
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:54 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: An alternative approach to starting new harp players
- Replies: 4
- Views: 66628
Re: An alternative approach to starting new harp players
Any updates on your neighbour's progress? Or about the method in general?
(I sent you a direct message, by the way!)
(I sent you a direct message, by the way!)
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:10 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: An alternative approach to starting new harp players
- Replies: 4
- Views: 66628
Re: An alternative approach to starting new harp players
What a nice story! I'm much looking forward to hearing how this develops! Regarding your choice of tuning I think you are on to something. I have been recommending Paddies whenever I advice beginners for several years! My main motivations are usually to let the beginner play in minor keys and to ext...
- Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:58 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Chromatic for Irish-- there can be only one! (For me at least)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 44840
Re: Chromatic for Irish-- there can be only one! (For me at least)
This post could come under the category of "Too Much Information!" As long as it concerns harmonicas, there's no such thing :P FLIPPED SLIDER SOUND Using a D chrom to play in D & G is better for Irish music than using a G. In my experience, trad tunes lay better for both keys on the D. I'm a little...
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:20 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: PowerChromatic Saxony or deluxe Steel?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 53855
Re: PowerChromatic Saxony or deluxe Steel?
2nd position works well on a PowerChromatic. When I ask the Seydel configurator for a PowerChromatic in the key of Bb though, its lowest note is a C! You could easily shift it so that blow notes become Bb, C, Eb, G, Bb, etc (A#, C, D#, A# in their notation!) That would give you the covarage you want...