Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

I don't feel well qualified to "review" products per se . However, having started this thread on re-tuning the Easttop EDharmonica , I feel obligated to share my initial real-world experience with this model. This week I received two Easttop EDharmonicas from a major seller. They arrived in brand-ne...

The tuning just above would certainly work. But as a re-tuning project, it involves moving the 7 draw upwards by three semitones. Maintaining Richter 's reversed breath pattern for that hole makes the re-tuning easier. Using stock Kongsheng Baby Fats , the following re-tunings are possible: Stock F ...

In a ten-hole format, the venerable Standard Richter tuning spans tonally from Tonic 1 to Tonic 4. This looks like three octaves; however, its first and last octaves are missing some notes. Three complete octaves of a septatonic scale simply do not fit within ten holes. Some tunings are extremely wi...

On this day (17January2019) I altered several of the comments and diagrams above, to make them clearer and more consistent.

Note that in the tuning below, the tonics of the slide-out layer have been moved from the 1, 5 and 9 draws to the 3, 7 and 11 draws. ADDENDUM, Jan. 13, 2020: Please note that, by using the slider, a complete Ionian scale can be played from 1 blow to 3 draw. Also note that, in the slide-in layer, the...