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- Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:37 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Valveless Chromatics thread on Slidemeister
- Replies: 5
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Re: Valveless Chromatics thread on Slidemeister
Thanks for the tip! I try to keep up with the SlideMeister subforums about custom tunings and instruments, but I had missed this thread. Your idea for a tuning is cool, and it seems reasonable. There is one claim you make, however, that doesn't seem to be totally true: 2. The wholetone-based tuning ...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 10:20 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17014
Re: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
Thanks for the charts Edvin. You are really good at coming up with useful tuning schemes for any harmonica configuration :) Thank you :) However, I wonder if we're talking at cross purposes? You talk about dual-function reeds as if the reeds themselves can be played as blow or draw. I guess you ima...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 12:00 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17014
Re: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
I'll have another go at what could be done if we could invert the blow/draw notes in a single holes, i.e assuming the blow note and the draw note in a single hole could change place. Spiral tuning has a lot of chords and is good and intuitive for melody playing. A disadvantage of the Spiral is that ...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 8:20 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17014
Re: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
Thank you for the clarifying post! I'll try to think about the problem in this correct version, but it does seem tricky. For my system from the first post, I had in mind reeds that would respond to either a blow or a draw. I see now this is not what you meant, and take this as another example of how...
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:19 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17014
Re: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
If you mean that you have some button that flips the holes: Could this could be selectable to only affect some holes? There could be some uses for this. Flipping the top 4 holes of a standard Richter would turn the top to a spiral tuned harp. In addition to "fixing" the inverted breathing pattern in...
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:46 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17014
Re: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
One application would be to include a compact chord harmonica at the bottom of a slide harmonica. This could be useful as many popular slide harmonica tunings are optimised for single note melody rather than chords. Practical outline: In a slide harmonica we dedicate the bottom 3 holes for chords. I...
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 7:31 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: The Mk2 Lucky 13 is released!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15696
Re: The Mk2 Lucky 13 is released!
My unique Look-Dots (small position markers on the front of the comb) make it easy to know where you are on the Lucky 13 Mk2. Here's a video showing how they work for the standard Richter model. The same info applies to the PowerBender, PowerDraw and Paddy-Richter harps too. https://youtu.be/2jQx8u...
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:41 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: The Mk2 Lucky 13 is released!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15696
Re: The Mk2 Lucky 13 is released!
Thanks Edvin for your helpful comparison of the two tunings. One point I take from it is that I should add a Lucky 13 Solo in the key of D to the keys available! That would probably be useful for Irish Solo players, but even without it the range of keys and tunings is already really impressive. Als...
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 12:18 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: The Mk2 Lucky 13 is released!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15696
Re: The Mk2 Lucky 13 is released!
Oh I'm a bit confused then, my apologies, I'm just starting to get into the different tunings and I'm coming from the tinwhistle world. for Irish music you'd recommend a mk2 Lucky in solo tuning instead of a mk2 lucky 13 in Paddy Richter? The solo and the paddy do different things. A Solo tuned L13...
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:25 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Double Paddy Wilde Rock Lucky 13!
- Replies: 6
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Re: Double Paddy Wilde Rock Lucky 13!
Paddy Powerbender is a nice tuning! I've been playing around with it during the spring, and I'm coming to really like it. There are several nice positions, and I really prefer the top octave to the Richter one. I never tried a Paddy Powerdraw, but thinking about it I realize that for 4th position mi...