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- Sun Oct 17, 2021 8:28 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Spiral-DLT tuning (a working title)
- Replies: 15
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Re: Spiral-DLT tuning (a working title)
This tuning would definitely benefit from being extended to the right in a 12- or 13- or 16-hole harp . https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=816 Holes 4-10 follow what chromatic players sometimes call Classical tuning, so there should be longer chroms tuned like this. ...
- Sat Oct 16, 2021 5:09 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: The All-Trills All-Bends Dimi (aka Edvin's newest curiosity tuning)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5884
Re: The All-Trills All-Bends Dimi (aka Edvin's newest curiosity tuning)
While this would be a very expressive chromatic for many styles, I'm sceptical about its use in Celtic music. At the speed the tunes go, you need to have all the notes of the scale as in-built notes without a button push. You are right of course. I view the ornamentation properties of the tuning I ...
- Sat Oct 16, 2021 10:31 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Playing Rolls or Turns on Harmonica
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5237
Re: Playing Rolls or Turns on Harmonica
I think I can play something like rolls with my Wedin chromatics. The best recording I have I think is the following: https://cloud.fripost.org/s/ZL7rC7FLp8sYKje Is this the kind of ornament you mean? The tune is rather slow, but the ornaments are at ok speed I think. I'll try to record something qu...
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:22 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: The All-Trills All-Bends Dimi (aka Edvin's newest curiosity tuning)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5884
Re: The All-Trills All-Bends Dimi (aka Edvin's newest curiosity tuning)
This would require a double chromatic, unfortunately. A double diatonic wouldn't do. Brendan used to make them: https://brendan-power.com/discontinued-harps.php#double-chrom Such a harmonica has two buttons: one that alternates between two chromatics, and one that work like a normal button for both ...
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:11 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: The All-Trills All-Bends Dimi (aka Edvin's newest curiosity tuning)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5884
The All-Trills All-Bends Dimi (aka Edvin's newest curiosity tuning)
You know the feeling: The band start playing an Irish reel in Ab or C#m, and you left that particular slide diatonic at home. What if there was some way you could play all the diatonic ornaments in any key, with a simple push of a button! The waiting is over! At least if you have a spare of Brendan'...
- Tue Oct 12, 2021 10:54 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Seydel Nonslider
- Replies: 41
- Views: 68863
Re: Seydel Nonslider
Good work Lizzy
People seem to be finding more possibilities with the Nonslider all the time, especially this guy: https://youtu.be/N2JfDBj6u3k
In this particular video, he plays holes from the two rows simultaneously to significantly expand the set of chords in Solo tuning. I think it's cool!
People seem to be finding more possibilities with the Nonslider all the time, especially this guy: https://youtu.be/N2JfDBj6u3k
In this particular video, he plays holes from the two rows simultaneously to significantly expand the set of chords in Solo tuning. I think it's cool!
- Fri Oct 08, 2021 11:06 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Hohner PentaHarp (a 1990s alternate tuning)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 48798
Re: Hohner PentaHarp (a new alternate tuning)
Thanks for the alert! I think the tuning makes sense! It's actually a bit similar to stuff I've been playing myself lately, though this is more beginner friendly. Note that, though the layout on the page is labelled as A, other keys look nice as well. The Cm penta, for instance, is all draws and ful...
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:02 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Request help with terminology
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4155
Re: Request help with terminology
How about saying the top four holes of Richter are blow-high , while the first six are draw-high ? Otherwise, you could consider the breathing pattern of the first six holes regular , while the top four are flipped . How about that? Inversion is already used, not only for Brendan's Inverted Solo, bu...
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:16 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Diatonic tunings inspired by the Wedin Chromatic
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14552
Re: Diatonic tunings inspired by the Wedin Chromatic
About the formatting: I use spaces as separators. Single-letter notes are followed by two spaces while sharps and flats are followed by a single space. Because the code tags make all characters, including spaces, have the same width this results in straight lines. In your phone app, spaces most like...
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:43 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Diatonic tunings inspired by the Wedin Chromatic
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14552
Re: Diatonic tunings inspired by the Wedin Chromatic
Thank you Brendan for your feedback! I really appreciate it :) It IS a rather different way of playing, but I don't remember it taking THAT long to adjust when I started a few years ago. Maybe it did and I've just suppressed the traumatic experience :D While my "basic" chromatic tuning can be played...