Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Good work Lizzy

People seem to be finding more possibilities with the Nonslider all the time, especially this guy: https://youtu.be/N2JfDBj6u3k

In this particular video, he plays holes from the two rows simultaneously to significantly expand the set of chords in Solo tuning. I think it's cool!

Thanks for the alert! I think the tuning makes sense! It's actually a bit similar to stuff I've been playing myself lately, though this is more beginner friendly. Note that, though the layout on the page is labelled as A, other keys look nice as well. The Cm penta, for instance, is all draws and ful...

How about saying the top four holes of Richter are blow-high , while the first six are draw-high ? Otherwise, you could consider the breathing pattern of the first six holes regular , while the top four are flipped . How about that? Inversion is already used, not only for Brendan's Inverted Solo, bu...

About the formatting: I use spaces as separators. Single-letter notes are followed by two spaces while sharps and flats are followed by a single space. Because the code tags make all characters, including spaces, have the same width this results in straight lines. In your phone app, spaces most like...

Thank you Brendan for your feedback! I really appreciate it :) It IS a rather different way of playing, but I don't remember it taking THAT long to adjust when I started a few years ago. Maybe it did and I've just suppressed the traumatic experience :D While my "basic" chromatic tuning can...

Thank you!

Brendan mentioned using my Wedin Chromatic tuning for diatonics in the other thread, and I thought it might be worth mentioning the diatonic variations I've tried myself. Just FYI :) The first one is a simple retune of the slide-out notes of my original tuning: flattening 1, 5 and 9 draw, and 4, 8 a...

For now I'm just exploring the simple diatonic version anyway. I'm interested to see how it would sound in a real harp with bends, so will retune a Lucky 13 and give it a try. While it's quite nice to play without the slide as-is, for diatonics there are some variations one can make to make it more...

Thank you very mugh for the feedback, Brendan! :) I'll answer the three posts in turn. --- Regarding the use of extra buttons: I do think it could be helpful, but I don't really follow your reasoning. I think you might have misunderstood something, but I'm not sure. First, the slider is not complete...

When I clean my valve-less diatonics I usualy first let them soak in warm water for 10-15 minutes or so, either the whole harp or just the reedplates if it has a wooden comb. If it's a harp I've equipped with gasketvalves, I take it apart to dry. Is this a good method to use with the half-valved har...