Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Interesting idea Dom, i’m waiting for my Game Changer to arrive and i planned to do a similar thing i want to retune some of the slide notes to “Eddie Clarke” semitone down ones, but for others i might do something different to give me missing notes or enharmonic notes instead. Will post when i have...

Interesting observation Brendan! From what I see Trochilus / Bushman Game Changer made quite a hype in harmonica circles (or maybe my harmonica circles are very narrow? :) ) So maybe (hopefully) we'll see Suzuki / Hohner / Seydel improving on this design and coming up with their model. They could ma...

Thank you for the review Dominico! It’s a pity the slider is not reversible, i was thinking of getting one for irish music. Retuning 20 reeds up a tone is not very fun. Does it have the key stamped somewhere on it? I wonder if some customizers could come up with more conventionslly rectangle shape o...

... Regarding the "magnets as an even quicker alternative to blu tak" its only been one day but I've carried the thing around in my pocket and played a bunch and the magnets haven't budged. I'll keep carrying it and see what happens. I still wonder if that's the good way to go. I have my Melody Mak...

Interesting insights Dom and Brendan, I'd say keep them coming! Maybe just to share another view on alternative tunings - I play mostly irish trad / old time on harmonica and occasionally blues, and while I see that some alternative tunings open up some possibilities, I guess the biggest stopper for...

I was experimenting with micro magnets as weights and it works quite nicely. I'm not sure I want to go this way due to possible danger of magnet swallowing though. They seem to hold quite firmly on the reeds, but still, as far as I know it's not at all desirable to have super strong micromagnet insi...

I have played with magnetic field + steel reeds (aka turboslide principle) and so far my conclusion is that i need to looks elsewhere for my “irish harp style” harmonica. The problem is that it looks like it’s only possible to lower reed pitch down for about a semitone via magnetic field, while i wa...

… I have some of these tiny magnets, and they attract well to Seydel steel reeds. I was looking into using them as reversible tuning weights: similar to the repeat-Blutak idea, but faster. Mixed success in that respect. … I’ve just received a parcel of small magnets i’ve ordered to try exactly that...

I was going to try this new harp! I prefer flat sliders though so i can play Eddie Clarke / Mick Kinsella style But probably can retune it fairly easily. Regarding TEMU, you don’t have to buy it there, as far as i know it is also sold by bushman (under Game Changer name) in US and i have seen some s...

Brendan, you're describing almost exactly the idea which I was thinking about for a while already (after I had a chat with you on FB). I was thinking if it's possible to do it without modifying the comb though - I have very nice combs from JA which I really want to continue using. Also, I didn't mak...