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by IaNerd
Wed May 11, 2022 11:55 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Replies: 15
Views: 63492

Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?

Strictly Alternating Church-modes = SAtChMo? ;)
by IaNerd
Tue May 10, 2022 4:45 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Replies: 15
Views: 63492

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...
by IaNerd
Sun May 08, 2022 5:31 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Replies: 15
Views: 63492

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...
by IaNerd
Sun May 08, 2022 1:21 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
Replies: 5
Views: 52729

Re: Bluesy slide-harp tuning

See a related discussion of mine here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=876&p=3921#p3920
by IaNerd
Sun May 08, 2022 1:20 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Strategically Draw-Bending Slide Richter
Replies: 2
Views: 37103

Re: Strategically Draw-Bending Slide Richter

See an earlier and related discussion of mine here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=667#p2906
by IaNerd
Sun May 08, 2022 12:48 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Strategically Draw-Bending Slide Richter
Replies: 2
Views: 37103

Strategically Draw-Bending Slide Richter

I was thinking about Brendan Power ’s discussion on Extra-Deep Bend s (in some cases, Half-Flat Slide ), found here: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=863#p3845 Then I thought about the draw-bends that standard Richter tuning has which are well suited to the blues - namely hole...
by IaNerd
Sat May 07, 2022 10:34 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Merging "Spiral" with "Slide-Diatonic"
Replies: 1
Views: 36077

Re: Merging "Spiral" with "Slide-Diatonic"

I studied the database of over 25,000 songs at https://www.hooktheory.com/cheat-sheet/key-popularity and found this:

By diatonic modes:
Ionian 50.4%
Aeolian 39.5%
Dorian 3.8%
Mixolydian 3.7%
Phrygian 1.1%
Lydian 1.1%
Locrian 0.3%
by IaNerd
Fri May 06, 2022 5:12 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Merging "Spiral" with "Slide-Diatonic"
Replies: 1
Views: 36077

Merging "Spiral" with "Slide-Diatonic"

Here in the USA we used to have television ads depicting hypothetical “accidents” whereby a chocolate bar is crashed into peanut butter, thereby inspiring one of our more popular candies. Here I want to explore what happens when we crash Spiral/Circular/Helical tuning with Brendan Power’s 12-hole Sl...
by IaNerd
Wed May 04, 2022 4:23 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Replies: 15
Views: 63492

Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?

The first post (above) shows a flat-slide version of this concept -- because flat-slide is my personal leaning. I am probably in the minority there. In any case, here is the sharp-slide counterpart of this idea. Note that in both cases the tonics (and therefore the other scale degrees) of the major ...
by IaNerd
Mon May 02, 2022 8:33 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Replies: 15
Views: 63492

Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?

In the past year or so I have become increasingly interested in tunings that are based on the general spiral/circular/helical concept. In the tuning below I have a slide (or Slideless ! ;) ) type of chromatic harp. However, instead of having the two layers differ by one semitone between the "slide-i...