Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

A pre-annoncement that two new products will be launched this coming week - keep an eye out

The Lucky 13 samples in Solo and PowerChromatic arrived from Easttop. Sounding good - will see how they work half-valved.

Rick, check these babies out: http://www.smartproducts.com/check_valves_series_100_cartridge_specialty.php The smallest ones could be arranged in line in a diatonic harmonica mouthpiece (hole spacing is 7.5mm). However, I doubt two things: 1.Their lowest operating pressure of 0.09 psi is low enough ...

Interesting posts people :-) I'm off to Denmark and Sweden tomorrow doing a few gigs, and am taking a couple of UniBender prototypes to play and show a couple of friends. One is Joel Andersson, an excellent young harp tech, who works ubder the Hohner Affiliated Customiser scheme. He has shown quite ...

I inadvertently created an interesting new tuning nearly 30 years ago, without realising it until quite recently. In the late 1980s I started retuning chromatics to make what I call Slide-Diatonics. These were primarily for Irish music, where I was playing in the home key and related modes of the ch...

Good practical suggestion

Good advice Triona - thanks!

My Universal PowerComb for the Hohner wood-comb chromatics will fit all keys, so no worries. Info here: http://www.brendan-power.com/combs-hohner.php#12 Ordering for lipped chromatic PowerCombs is suspended at he moment while we research new methods/materials for adding the lip. In the emantime I re...

Thanks for your sympathetic comments, Lizzy and Triona. The good thing is I have a bit of a deadline coming up for this and a couple of other designs that I need to finish patent papers for in early April, so that will help concentrate the mind

I'm in the process of getting some samples made by Easttop of PowerChromatic tuning on the Lucky 13. Just a couple of keys. I've made some myself, and finding it great for Bluegrass and Ragtime tunes where you want the easy chromaticism with a funkier diatonic tone. Here's a test demo of playing Luc...