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Q: Do you see applications of 221 to "chromatic"/slide harp? What might that look like?

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I would like to share some thoughts: 1. I love this forum and, like others, am indebted to Brendan's vision and generosity in creating and maintaining it. 2. I've now posted over 180 times. Most of those posts regard alternate tunings. 3. With my science education career cut short by a progressive g...

A "double-Richter- plus " format could be either to: (A) Repeat the first four channels at an octave lower, and delete the last channel, in a 13-hole body, or ... (B) Repeat the first four channels at an octave lower, and delete the last two channels, in a 12-hole body. Both of these provi...

I understand and respect all of Triona's comments on this topic. Thanks! I have now re-tuned the lower-left A to a B-flat. I would like to get the Easttop, but they are suddenly less available in the US and more expensive than they were a couple months ago. As I was re-tuning the A to B-flat, I was ...

I am a beginner at fine-tuning and re-tuning reeds. I started by trying various scratching tools. Then I had better success with sanding detailer sticks. Yesterday I tried this: 61O+rGvjC8L._SX463_.jpg in a rotary tool set to about 10-15k rpm. The "green bullets" (ha!) are rubber, and impr...

Please note that the major triads in the blow row align perfectly with those in the draw row. This makes for optimally fast and easy chugging between those chord pairs. The same is true of all the b7th tetrads. This tuning is also sports a number of triple-stop octave pairs, especially in the blow r...

When using a three-hole embouchure, this tuning has only one "sour zone". Playing 4-5-6 draw would sound bad.

Contrast this with tunings that have multiple such "sour zones".

I'm also seeing now that this basic tuning, in a 13-hole format, could sport a very nice double/repeated Richter octave a la SBS and Lucky 13.

This would not, however, result in an additional blues scale octave, because the extended area would be missing the B-flat.