Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Looking at the re-tuning at Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:15 am (above), I am now noticing that it is very similar to Major Cross by Tony Eyers ; that tuning also is a derivative of Richter . Both of these tunings feature a low side that is spiral tuned, followed by a high side that has an inverted breath patt...

The Natural Minor variant of Richter tuning has been around a long time. Lee Oskar is credited with making this tuning widely available and popular. Of course in its 1st position it can play natural minor songs. But in its 2nd and 3rd positions this tuning is highly suitable for playing minor hexato...

Q1: Who is the creator of the NM tuning?

Q2: What was the first NM harp in regular production?

In the time that I have studied, devised and written about alternate tunings, I have on several occasions been humbled by my own unwitting demonstrations of convergent evolution. Consider the tuning shown two posts above this one -- from February 5, 2020 . At the time of this writing that tuning has...

An even less expensive alternative ... A 7-hole Kongsheng Baby Fat of Natural Minor tuning which is labeled as "D" (for its 1st position at 1 blow) can be re-tuned as in the post above. This results in a Cmaj/Amin harp, with full octaves for both modes/positions. The Baby Fat Natural Minor is availa...

Tunings like those in Figures 3 and 4 (above) can be made through Seydel's Configurator. I have looked for re-tuning alternatives that would be less expensive. My best effort so far is shown below. In this re-tuning, the upper end of the harp has an "inverted" -- as opposed to a "re-set" -- breath p...

Through Seydel's Configurator I have ordered two units tuned like Figure 3 (above) plus two units tuned like Figure 4 (below). These will be tested by expert players and also beginners. I will report back with any news.

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I was told by Seydel today: Thank you for your message. We plan to offer the NONSLIDER Chromatic in more keys and also put it in the configurator in the future. At the moment we have to keep up with the big demand for the C harmonica. Therefore we do not offer the NONSLIDER in other keys at the mome...

In Figure 3 (above) we could lower the 7 blow by one semitone. This would make the 7 draw bendable.

In 2017 I introduced a tuning which bore similarities to Circular , Major Cross , MelodyMaker and PowerChromatic . As a result of some off-line discussion, Brendan Power and I agreed to call this tuning PowerChrom-Plus . Figure 1 (below) illustrates the prototype that I had made using Seydel’s Confi...