Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

My day job kept me especially busy this week, I didn't have much time to move forward on any of these projects, let alone time to practice. Belated thanks for your video, Dom. It certainly shows that your ingenious assembly works to alter draw reeds pitches in the Seydel 1847. The magnet spring back...

Hey folks, I've started on another project and am looking for advice on a few decisions to make. The Trochilus gets 40 reeds into something "nearly" as small as a diatonic at least something that would be "pocketable" if it weren't for the slide. I've thought about what to do with that slide, redesi...

Hey Rob! This is a very timely discussion, I am also working on my first x-reed project and was going to make a post with some similar questions. Because you have 4 reeds in the chamber and you are planning on making a Sub-30 style harmonica, are you repurposing a chromatic? I had started a similar ...

One thing that occurred to me yesterday is that you can get very similar, but not quite the same bending enharmonic effects by either tuning the slide-in to the same tuning, but a whole step down, or the same tuning but a fifth up. Since both of those keys are closely related to the home key of the ...

Speaking of "emulators" This I think was another Suyash Kumar idea, you could have slide-in emulate a slipslider slide left, so all draw reeds in the upper octave now bend. RICHTER slide in: G. C. E. G. C. E. G. C. E. G. BLOW. C. E. G. C. E. G. C. E. G. C DRAW. D. G. B. D. F. A. B. D. F. A slide in:...

A "switch harp / double chromatic" for these might be a lot of fun.

What's better than two bendable diatonic harps stacked on top of one another? Four bendable diatonic harps stacked on top of one another!

I think we might start seeing a lot more of these cool slide diatonic tunings now that the average-joe diatonic player is starting to warm up to these 10 hole chromatics.

And also here: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=876 It looks like we landed on nearly the same slide tuning for the first 5 holes of richter :-) The cool thing with these newer cheaper, smaller chromatics is that these tunings now become a lot more practical. To Brendan's poi...

While retuning my Trochilus in A to Wilde Tuning, I thought, rather than creating a typical chromatic, maybe I should create a "slide diatonic" tuning where the slide-in functions pretty much exclusively as auxiliary enharmonics and bends that would not normally be present on a typical diatonic. For...

Demo video (from my basement)
https://youtu.be/ABmjrQxieNI?si=GHeWadC-F4kqJPXJ
Standard Richter tuning in G: Slipslider to play in A minor in the middle and upper octaves.