These are fun to make, and can be very useful!
https://youtu.be/cCkGUm5qZvc
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- Tue Feb 28, 2023 5:14 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: STRETCH HARPS: Mashing Two Harmonicas into One.
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- Sat Feb 25, 2023 8:34 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Chromatic for Irish-- there can be only one! (For me at least)
- Replies: 8
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Re: Chromatic for Irish-- there can be only one! (For me at least)
Another interesting alternative is to make your own Irish Session Harp from a Low D chromatic. You can keep both keys in Solo Tuning by displacing the D and G scales. This works on both straight and cross tuned chromatics. Here's how it would look: SLIDE OUT: DE. F#G. AB. DC#. DE. F#G. AB. DC#. DE e...
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 5:49 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Chromatic for Irish-- there can be only one! (For me at least)
- Replies: 8
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Re: Chromatic for Irish-- there can be only one! (For me at least)
There are several ways of using a single slide harmonica for playing in keys D & G for Irish music. This post could come under the category of "Too Much Information!", but it's something I've thought about a lot - so here are some ideas to mull over: FLIPPED SLIDER SOUND Using a D chrom to play in D...
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:32 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: STAGGERED REEDPLATES UPGRADE - Thanks Edvin!
- Replies: 3
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STAGGERED REEDPLATES UPGRADE - Thanks Edvin!
Recently I posted here about a Richter diatonic harmonica design with staggered reedplates and a front slider. It had 13 bends (compared to 8 on a normal harp), but I hadn't seen how to add the crucial 14th bend on hole 7. I designed the harp between 2016-18. It was very promising but that missing b...
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:25 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: "Harmonica levers" - harmonica idea for irish trad players
- Replies: 3
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Re: "Harmonica levers" - harmonica idea for irish trad players
Thanks for your message Roman. There is a historical free reed instrument that uses this principle of shortening the reed to get higher notes: the single-reed pitch pipe. John Cook did an excellent video on it, and actually made one from scratch: https://youtu.be/V_sPcJkstSo From time to time people...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 3:40 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Magnetically Attractive Reedplate Sliders
- Replies: 2
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Magnetically Attractive Reedplate Sliders
One of my best inventions so far! It has a lot of potential for many different types of harmonicas, I believe. https://youtu.be/0EZn2AKX40I (This invention is shared under a Creative Commons License: MAGNETICALLY ATTRACTIVE REEDPLATE SLIDERS © 2022 by Brendan Power is licensed under Attribution-NonC...
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:57 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: OVERBLOW-BOOSTER MK2 PARTS KIT - Retrofit Your Own Harp!
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OVERBLOW-BOOSTER MK2 PARTS KIT - Retrofit Your Own Harp!
The Overblow-Booster Mk2 is now available as a Parts Kit to retrofit to your own harp. Here's a hands-on instructional video showing how it's done:
https://youtu.be/j-9AM5eahfY
Link to the Ordering page is in the Description.
https://youtu.be/j-9AM5eahfY
Link to the Ordering page is in the Description.
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 8:47 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
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Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
As often Edvin, you take a single idea and run with it, extrapolating to new applications I hadn't considered. Always surprising and interesting 👍 The rocker arm design shown in my video relies on gravity to hang out of the way in the neutral position. So on conventional diatonic harmonicas it will ...
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:35 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62857
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
TECH TUESDAY #2: Rocker Arm Reed Mute
With harmonicas, the Devil is in the Detail - small things matter a lot! This is a prime example: a quirky little gizmo I invented to do a critical reed-muting job on my SlipSlider Mk1 harmonica.
https://youtu.be/ojRZ6oXrCF4
With harmonicas, the Devil is in the Detail - small things matter a lot! This is a prime example: a quirky little gizmo I invented to do a critical reed-muting job on my SlipSlider Mk1 harmonica.
https://youtu.be/ojRZ6oXrCF4
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:05 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62857
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Thanks for your comments, Edvin. Regarding the advantage you described, of being able to shift the Staggered Reedplate slider whilst playing: it's true when compared to the SlipSlider Mk2 (Special 20 version), but in the MK1 and Mk3 SlipSliders I added Teflon spacer plates, which allow the lower dra...