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And here's a 1 minute lesson on how to play a Blues Turnaround in 2nd Position in the middle octave of a Richter MORBENDZ in C:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6hCV-8j1ef8

Here's an amusing but instructive short MORBENDZ clip made by our esteemed Forum Moderator David Ireland, getting good views on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7RxanLo ... BncTE5M2tu

The tune is played in 1st Position in the middle octave.

I'm away from home so I can't check right now, but from memory the main effect of my slimmed down Koch/260 models was on the size rather than the sound.

Looking forward to seeing how your experiments work out

Nice job Dominick 👍 Is that PLA or ABS you're using? Integrated Slider-Mouthpiece is too much of a mouthful (haha) for this thing. So I'm now calling it a MouthSlider. Shorter and still descriptive, because it combines a mouthpiece and slider in one. A MouthSlider is an essential part of the new X-R...

X-Reed MORBENDZ 001 A couple of inside shots from my X-Reed partner Andre Coelho of the first MORBENDZ off the 'production line' 😂 Note the front screws for super airtightness, and the 21st reed. The single outside valve enables a 15th valved bend on the 7 draw: a nice addition to the 14 juicy inter...

You should still go ahead Suyash! With 40 reeds to play with instead of 20 (or 21), you're bound to arrive at a different outcome.

Not sure what exactly, but it would be interesting

Hi Triona, I hope this will help. It's for the Richter version, but the pattern of the lower 6 holes would transfer to all 10 holes in a Regular Breath tuning. You can deduce from it what will happen when pushing the MouthSlider with various tunings. MORBENDZ - Note Layouts with Bends.png Roni is fa...

"Regular Breath Tuning" was a name I gave to my first ever alternate tuning back around 1980, and I recorded my first album 'Country Harmonica' with it. https://www.brendan-power.com/CountryHarmonica.php But now people are using the term with a generic, wider meaning. 'Regular Breath' now refers to ...

Thanks Dom! It's certainly simpler to use: just one easy button push gives all the new bends (instead of the more awkward twin opposite moves of the SlipSlider). And the high draw bends stay located in the same mouth hole Instead of shifting down one, which is easier to remember. Plus it's good for ...

I'm proud to announce the MORBENDZ: a radical new diatonic harmonica, and the first harp to be released in my X-Reed partnership with Andre Coelho. The name says it all: 14 easy bends (instead of 8 on a standard Richter harp). It's possible because of the combination of several innovative design fea...