Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Many players would probably prefer a variation of my tuning, achieved by simply turning the slide upside down. Which one you choose is really a matter of taste, and all my analysis in the previous post still applies! note-chart-red-blue-sharp-slide.png Most notably, pushing the slide in this variati...

Nice to hear you like it! Thanks for the encouragement :D The tuning looks as follows: chart-red-blue.png Some properties are immediately apparent: A 12 hole instrument spans 3 octaves. It's fully chromatic. (ignoring two notes at the very ends) The slide alters most notes (7/8) by one half step. No...

I've been using a rather different kind of tuning for chromatic harmonica for a few years now. For years I had been looking for a harmonica that lets me convincingly play minor Swedish folk tunes with diatonic ornamentations. After finding this tuning I haven't bought or built a slide-harp tuned any...

Welcome to the forum! The kind of tuning like you propose, with four unique notes in each hole, completely regular patterns and four octaves in twelve holes is commonly known as Augmented tuning, or Augy for short. It is to some extent discussed in some threads here (you can find them with the searc...

I watched the nice video in your thread about combining the TurboSlide and the SlipSlider, and rather than derailing that thread I make a new one here instead. (also, what follows is probably more "alternative" than "Brendan Power-related") I can't resist some additional wisealeckery: In the past yo...

That's a really cool hybrid! Great work!

Thank you Brendan for the encouragement! It's on my to-do list! The thing is, my typing-related hand pain has been worse lately, and in the same time I am trying to finish my PhD thesis. (on the brighter side I'm looking into how fast a DM48 can be used for typing, so at least my first excuse might ...

This is a tricky one... I don't think there's actually any minor chords there. I've gone through a bunch of videos without hearing any. To find the actual notes, I ran the following clip through my spectrum analyser (a.k.a. girlfriend with a really good ear): https://youtu.be/PrO_JqswsYI The C chord...

I've been playing with my Seydel All Minor, which has a magnet over the 2B reed as well. Without the magnets it's in standard tuning, in the key of A. No totally conclusive results so far. I've managed to bend the draw note down to one half step below 1D, which is the same distance Kan Osumi demonst...

The Turboslide magnets are adjustable and can be moved closer to or further from the reeds. Doing this increases or decreases the strength of the magnetic field, and thus increases the lowering effect. You can lower most notes at least a full step. This is also mentioned in the instructions for the ...