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- Sun Dec 15, 2019 10:43 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Re-tuning a Kongsheng Baby Fat to Harmonic Minor
- Replies: 4
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Re: Re-tuning a Kongsheng Baby Fat to Harmonic Minor
Another option would be to replace the high B with a Bb: C Eb G C Eb G Bb D G B D F Ab C This forces you to bend the C to get the B so it might not work for all kinds of playing. There are some advantages thugh: 1. You can use the scale for natural minor as well, making the instrument more versatile...
- Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:24 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Re-tuning a Kongsheng Baby Fat to Harmonic Minor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6405
Re: Re-tuning a Kongsheng Baby Fat to Harmonic Minor
Of course it depends on what music you intend to play. I think I prefer your first options over the spiral, and out of those the version with a C at 7D, but it's not clear cut. Considering the spiral is lacking the C in the bottom octave, hole 1 feels a bit redundant. For melodies to go that far dow...
- Thu Dec 12, 2019 2:36 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Tuning for Double Chromatic: Fully chromatic slide diatonic spiral with all the chords!
- Replies: 3
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Tuning for Double Chromatic: Fully chromatic slide diatonic spiral with all the chords!
A spiral tuned harp has all the standard triad chords in its key, three major chords and three minor chords. Thus, it covers the major chords of one quadrant of the circle of fifths plus their minor parallels, one fourth of all the common chords. The following tuning for Brendan Power's twin chromat...
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 7:13 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Augmented Tuning
- Replies: 2
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Re: Augmented Tuning
WOW! I played the sound clips on the Eric Chafer page you linked, and ... just wow. I never thought of augmented as a tuning for high speed playing, but clearly it's possible. Do you have any idea why such a skilled player would quit? It makes you wonder how good he is with those other instruments ...
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 1:24 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Notes from the Workshop
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11857
Re: Notes from the Workshop
... I don't want to say too much before anything is released , because unanticipated problems can always crop up and detail what seems a dead cert. But the improved harps I've been creating include the TwinHarmonica series, both chromatic and diatonic based. ... Based on a new concept altogether, m...
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 8:38 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Playing chords by pushing the slider half-way in! (Is this a thing?)
- Replies: 7
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Re: Playing chords by pushing the slider half-way in! (Is this a thing?)
I've played around with diminished and augmented on my midiharp, but I never had either tuning in a chromatic reed harmonica. By the way, when you said above the the forths and fifths are the only equally tempered intervals that sound good to you, I think you miss the octave ;) I don't know if peopl...
- Thu Nov 14, 2019 8:15 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Chromaticising X-Reed Harmonicas
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7763
Re: Chromaticising X-Reed Harmonicas
By the way: Are there any drawbacks to setting the blow reeds to a non-zero gap?
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 10:58 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Chromaticising X-Reed Harmonicas
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7763
Re: Chromaticising X-Reed Harmonicas
I tried an AsiaBend at HarpMeet and liked it, so I've been keeping an eye out to see when they'll be back in stock, so updates are nice:D
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:35 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Playing chords by pushing the slider half-way in! (Is this a thing?)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11288
Re: Playing chords by pushing the slider half-way in! (Is this a thing?)
Nice to hear about your empirical results! A switch harp like the Irish Session are indeed already set up to try this. It would be nice to hear what other switch harp players think about this :) I know it's not easy to get the push just right, but I figured that's something one can learn. As you not...
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:17 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Octatonic Tuning "1122" (Idea Kniri)
- Replies: 3
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Re: Octatonic Tuning "1122" (Idea Kniri)
There are two hexatonic blues scales in there, Eb and A, which are played with the exact same pattern. That's nice. The fifths bend down one half step, so I could imagine this tuning being good for blues as long as you stay in the hexatonic blues scale! The tonic is a bent note in both scales, which...