Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

NAME: I call this "Byrnes 10-Hole Blues" tuning. BASIC CONCEPT: Rethink Richter-Diatonic, to make blues more playable with without the use of so many partial draw bends, overblows, etc. WHEN/HOW: June of 2017, through Seydel's Configurator. This was a Noble Classic Low, as the first note is C3. LAY...

NAME: I call this my “Chord Buddy” tuning. BASIC CONCEPT: A tuning principally for chordal accompaniment of the myriad songs based on I – IV – V – vi progressions and rearrangements and subsets thereof (e.g. LOTS, if not most, of pop, rock, blues). WHEN/HOW: December 2015, using Seydel's Configurat...

Hello, everyone. "IaNerd" means that I am from Iowa (abbr. Ia) in the heart of the USA, and that I-am-a-nerd. My first harp was a pearwood Old Standby in 1972. Decades later I remain a novice player. However, I have developed a passion for studying and designing alternate tunings for harmonica and a...