Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

He's a powerful player and nice guy. Yes, that is true. I happened to meet him at a concert not very long ago. (It was the year when his sister got her baby.) We did not talk about his tuning of which I did not not have heared of yet by that time. We talked about the upcoming baby :lol: and about t...

Paddy Power Bender and Paddy Power Draw - are these tunings ready to order OOTB? Or are these individually retuned ones?


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triona

Looks interesting. And I guess the old patents might have run out now. But as I know you, you could evade them by some substantial improvement anyway.


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triona

Aha, thank you for clarification. That sounds more logical.


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triona

I would choose an Eb PowerBender for Gm/Bb . 5th Position is really nice on the PowerBender. That's what I'm using on the Will Wilde video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5V0mPDpxYk (below the video) the track is in Em ; Will is playing an A harp in 2nd Position, I'm playing a C harp in 5th Posit...

Nicely done.
Thanks for the background info.


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triona

... Tab gives me a good map of where the notes are. Still, a lot of it is trial-and-error. But be aware that there is no consistent and generally valid system how to write tabs. Anyone who does might do it in his own way, and without a definition of the used glyphes, it might be doubtful what there...

Very nice.
It is easy to hear and to see that both of you had a lot of fun.


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triona

Maybe it's a single harmonica, as described here: https://www.patmissin.com/ffaq/q36.html ? An instrument seems to be intended for early music education without bottom reeds. As for the numbers and brackets I have no idea! It seems to be a harmonica with only blow notes on only one reedplate indeed...

Sachlaw wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:14 am

... Brendan also has a really good track on his PowerBender CD that does this in the key of A.

Which CD do you mean by this?


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triona