Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

On the Slidemeister forum someone asked if Blue Moon combs are compatible with Brendan's Twin Harp system. I tried two Blue Moon combs on a 10-hole Twin Harp front piece.  One comb is aluminum and the other is brass.  They do NOT fit the Twin Harp, because the walls of their lips are thicker.  One m...

Brendan-- Do you suppose that the hole-spacing of some "slide/chrom" harp is close enough to that of some "non-slide/diatonic" harp that the two could be joined into a Twin system? An example would be a chrom of any chrom-ish tuning wed to a circular-tuned diatonic, for all of its dyads, triads and ...

I wonder if this 12-hole tuning is feasible in a properly valved slide "chromatic" harp such as the DeLuxe or DeLuxe Steele. My comprehension of valving is poor, so I invite your thoughts.

At this time (December 2017) Brendan does not offer a non-reentrant 12-hole Switch Harp system. As a get-by, the essence of this tuning could be had with currently available materials by the elimination of channels 4 and 5. I haven't yet tried to load that 10-hole tuning into Seydel's configurator. ...

NAME: "Dirt Simple" blues tuning for 12-hole harp Switch Harp BASIC CONCEPT: The chords are in chambers 1-4. Then there is a blank/plugged hole. Then the remaining chambers are the scales for the I, IV and V scales. WHEN/HOW: December of 2017. I have not yet had one made. LAYOUT/DETAILS: 2017-12-26...

An arguably better "Backpack" for Richter tuning can be seen in the topic entitled "PowerBender/PowerDraw's "Backpack" ... for Twin-Harp system".

An arguably better "Backpack" for Richter tuning can be seen in the topic entitled "PowerBender/PowerDraw's "Backpack" ... for Twin-Harp system".

A big part of the "Richter magic" lies in the ability to chug-chug away on those lovely I and IV cords in the low octave, i.e. chambers 1-4. No wonder that this critical part of the original Richter tuning is retained in both PowerDraw and PowerBender. Please note that in this "Backpack" tuning, tho...

I have developed ten- and twelve-hole extensions of this tuning. You can find them under their "Mullet" titles on this forum.

NAME: "Super-Duper Chord Buddy" ... for Brendan Power Quad-Six system BASIC CONCEPT: In my original Chord Buddy, I fit four useful chords (a I, IV, V and vi) into the diminutive Seydel Big Six. I later expanded upon that idea using a Twin Big Six comb (i.e. two Big Sixes, side-by-side). That led to...