Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

I was thinking about Brendan Power ’s discussion on Extra-Deep Bend s (in some cases, Half-Flat Slide ), found here: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=863#p3845 Then I thought about the draw-bends that standard Richter tuning has which are well suited to the blues - namely hole...

I studied the database of over 25,000 songs at https://www.hooktheory.com/cheat-sheet/key-popularity and found this:

By diatonic modes:
Ionian 50.4%
Aeolian 39.5%
Dorian 3.8%
Mixolydian 3.7%
Phrygian 1.1%
Lydian 1.1%
Locrian 0.3%

Here in the USA we used to have television ads depicting hypothetical “accidents” whereby a chocolate bar is crashed into peanut butter, thereby inspiring one of our more popular candies. Here I want to explore what happens when we crash Spiral/Circular/Helical tuning with Brendan Power’s 12-hole Sl...

The first post (above) shows a flat-slide version of this concept -- because flat-slide is my personal leaning. I am probably in the minority there. In any case, here is the sharp-slide counterpart of this idea. Note that in both cases the tonics (and therefore the other scale degrees) of the major ...

In the past year or so I have become increasingly interested in tunings that are based on the general spiral/circular/helical concept. In the tuning below I have a slide (or Slideless ! ;) ) type of chromatic harp. However, instead of having the two layers differ by one semitone between the "slide-i...

In my first few posts here https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=212#p1119 I considered some tunings that included lowering standard Richter's 7 draw note by two semitones -- making it equal to the 6 draw's pitch. Well over a year ago I got this far on what was going to be a more e...

See also this: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=868#p3870

I should probably mention that this tuning was inspired by my own re-tuning of the Hohner PentaHarp . That re-tuning is shown here: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=858#p3792 It is different only by the six blow note. I should also note that the tuning shown above is in the lo...

I have ordered this through Seydel's Configurator. I will report back later.

Chords: 1-6 blow: Cmaj (the IV chord) 1-2 draw: Bmin dyad (the iii dyad) 1-3 draw: Gmaj inverted (the I chord) 2-4 draw: Gmin inverted (the i chord) 3-4 blow: Emin dyad (the vi dyad) 3-5 draw: Gmin (the i chord) 3-6 draw: Gmin7 (the i7 chord) 4-6 draw: Bbmaj (the bIII chord) 5-6 draw: Dmin dyad (the...