Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

English rock harmonica star Will Wilde meets Swedish rock and blues harmonica lady Elin “Luffar Lo” Öberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhrt8QBcngg It is a Seydel promotion video for their harmonicas with the new Will Wilde tuning. This seems to be worthwhile to be discussed here as well btw. dea...

discovered today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QcZ14UFdR8 O'Carolan belongs to my favourites. And I love the harp too. It comes from his 2015 album "Harp to Harp", which he did together with Anne-Marie O'Farrel on the harp. I already have quite a lot of Brendan's records. But this one I did not ...

@ Seydel: And if the high price should be a retarding argument, I can recommend to choose the "Deluxe Steel" version. It has eactly the same reedplates as the "Saxony Steel". The difference is the acrylic comb of the "Deluxe" instead of the aluminium comb of the Saxony - besides the satinised finish...

Thanx.

Oh yes, indeed. The last year I experienced Symbio in concert - and purchased both of their CDs. Thanks for the link. This about the bending is very interesting. I have heard this some times in the past. But I did not realize that this practically was reed bending. And neither I knew how this was do...

I just discovered that Brendan did it too. :D IRISH HARMONICA LOCKDOWN DUET - Tijn Berends & Brendan Power Jig to Reel Mist Covered Mountains The Sligo Maid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdWGJf_rfE8 Very nice! A technical question: What kind of harmonica did Tijn use for the accompaniment of The S...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-vvLi5WVPk No harmonica involved. But this guy is ingenious anyway. And he shows a marvellous example how to modify and develop an old and well known instrument - in this case even one from the middle ages. An aspect which is vivid in this forum as well. He is perfor...

https://www.gofundme.com/f/blues-musicians-unite the site is in English and German. The organizer of this campaign is Roger Wade, a renowned English harmonica player based in Cologne, Germany. The virtual band for this production is international. The participant musicians introduce themseves by sho...

One more off-topic about a beautiful wind instrument, which maybe might be appreciated in those quarantine times: https://www.swrfernsehen.de/landesschau-bw/alphornblasen-gegen-den-corona-blues-100.html The range under the given local geographic conditions is about 3 km (~ 2 miles) - without any amp...

As there are some people from Sweden here and some others who are interested in Swedish folk music, I think this off-topic might be welcomed here (all videos in English): https://youtu.be/IBprWHPykXU And here the link to Emely's Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYqbZslIXPZoaz3KA4fwH3...