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- Mon May 16, 2022 8:34 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
- Replies: 15
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Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Winslow, I understand your point. In fact, Brendan and I and others had a detailed discussion on this very topic about a year ago. I have seen many tuning diagrams since I started learning such things fifty years ago. Most of the diagrams that I have seen, including the Configurator at Seydel, are s...
- Mon May 16, 2022 2:01 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Chromatic with Offset Tonics Double Lead Tone (COT-DLT)
- Replies: 1
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Chromatic with Offset Tonics Double Lead Tone (COT-DLT)
In this earlier discussion https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=829&sid=20321f3b7f8928c49795f0ca7a26a88b#p3642 I introduced Double Lead Tone (DLT) in association with a Spiral tuning. Then here https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=874#p3904 I introduced what app...
- Thu May 12, 2022 10:11 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 67878
Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
I will point out--before anyone else does--that all of the tunings in the posts above lack some of the enharmonics that we would have in more typical chromatic tunings. And that these enharmonics can be useful. True. I acknowledge this as a fair point.
- Thu May 12, 2022 9:19 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 67878
Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Below we have the same as the two tunings in the post just above, except shifted to the right by one hole in order to get at least one full octave of easy blow-draw play in all church modes--in holes 1 through 7. In holes 4 through 12 we have the repeating breath pattern for two full octaves--afford...
- Thu May 12, 2022 8:41 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 67878
Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Here https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=829&sid=18df62d8221d69a2aa76ac2896de92cb#p3642 I explored the combination of Spiral tuning with something that I termed “Double Lead Tone” or DLT. In DLT, there is a periodic “resetting” of the blow/draw pattern which occurs by repeating t...
- Wed May 11, 2022 11:55 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 67878
Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Strictly Alternating Church-modes = SAtChMo?
- Tue May 10, 2022 4:45 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 67878
Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Seydel 's Configurator can handle Spiral (they say Circular) tunings with low ends as low as C3 (130.81 Hz). By the way, my inner scientist/mathematician would say that in context of harmonica tunings, Spiral is not an appropriate term. In my opinion, Circular is a better term and Helical is perhap...
- Sun May 08, 2022 5:31 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 67878
Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
So why might these tunings matter? Or, to put it a better way, to whom might these tunings matter? I confess – as I did in another discussion – that I am a “living room” or “front porch” player. I can count my lifetime stage events on two hands. So for me the key in which I play a song is usually ir...
- Sun May 08, 2022 1:21 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 56019
Re: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
See a related discussion of mine here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=876&p=3921#p3920
- Sun May 08, 2022 1:20 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Strategically Draw-Bending Slide Richter
- Replies: 2
- Views: 39230
Re: Strategically Draw-Bending Slide Richter
See an earlier and related discussion of mine here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=667#p2906