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by EdvinW
Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:19 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
Replies: 17
Views: 16722

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...
by EdvinW
Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:46 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: An Idea in Need of an Application - Suggestions?
Replies: 17
Views: 16722

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...
by EdvinW
Mon Aug 10, 2020 7:31 pm
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: The Mk2 Lucky 13 is released!
Replies: 17
Views: 15484

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...
by EdvinW
Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:41 am
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: The Mk2 Lucky 13 is released!
Replies: 17
Views: 15484

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...
by EdvinW
Tue Aug 04, 2020 12:18 am
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: The Mk2 Lucky 13 is released!
Replies: 17
Views: 15484

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...
by EdvinW
Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:25 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Double Paddy Wilde Rock Lucky 13!
Replies: 6
Views: 8163

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...
by EdvinW
Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:03 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Hohner Penta from 1955
Replies: 2
Views: 4814

Re: Hohner Penta from 1955

Maybe it's a single harmonica, as described here: https://www.patmissin.com/ffaq/q36.html ?

An instrument seems to be intended for early music education without bottom reeds.

As for the numbers and brackets I have no idea!
by EdvinW
Mon May 25, 2020 11:11 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: PowerChromatic, Inverted Bebop, Diminished and all their relatives. A complete list!
Replies: 6
Views: 8928

Re: PowerChromatic, Inverted Bebop, Diminished and all their relatives. A complete list!

Thank you for the appreciation! The main take-home message from my post, I think, isn't necessarily about the cool new tunings. Rather, it's that if we want these properties, we have relatively few options. Our two choices are thus to either work with one of the tunings I present, or look outside th...
by EdvinW
Thu May 21, 2020 3:43 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: PowerChromatic, Inverted Bebop, Diminished and all their relatives. A complete list!
Replies: 6
Views: 8928

PowerChromatic, Inverted Bebop, Diminished and all their relatives. A complete list!

When Brendan talks about his PowerChromatic tuning for diatonic half-valved harmonicas, there is a set of properties he often mentions as advantages: * Each octave is the same * Each draw two half steps above its blow note * It has complete major scales through it's range, possibly with bends (Of co...
by EdvinW
Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:05 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Midi Sounds from a Standard Harmonica
Replies: 5
Views: 14230

Re: Midi Sounds from a Standard Harmonica

Thanks for sharing your research! In the third video on guitar effects ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODYpc7hfmJ0 not yet linked here) you don't talk about midi directly, but it's clear the two techniques can complement each other in your looping/one-man-banding. Does the software permit using di...