Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

There is one aspect of Richter tuning compared to circular which is significant: It allows or forces mainly 3 chords I , ii, V, which are 2 major 1 minor thus forces happier music. Based on that one could ask what is the Richter-like tuning for the chords I,IV, V, which is somehow more often compare...

Most probably such an idea might work better with a digital harmonicas like in your presenation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwgIAFOnJVs

I cannot argue as I have never experimented with that. I assume you have. Very probably you are right.Here is something similar to an harmonica from the experimental musical instruments of Bart Hopkin . http://barthopkin.com/spomo-hi/ . It could be blown also with a single tube and sliding blowing d...

The history of harmonica writes that it was inspired by the Chinese instrument Sheng, which is like a wooden panflute but with one only blowing pipe that distributes the air to many pipes. (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_(instrument) ) Actually this may have lead the chinese to make an int...

Thank you Brendan for the Remark. Yes you are right! In particular the Bb major chromatic gives also the A major (dorian mode) by the slide pushed, the F major the E major (dorian mode) by the slide pushed and the C major gives the B major (dorian mode) by the slide pushed. The only advantage of the...

Harmonica is a marvelous little instrument with nice harmonic sound and chords. The standard Richter-tuning is specializing in playing the Blues, and the chords I, ii, V. But what if we want a harmonica that is not specializing in any particular type of music and play all the 7 chords of a diatonic ...