Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

That sounds like a nice project! As far as I know Brendan doesn't sell any 12 hole diatonics at the moment, unless you count the slide diatonics (which are really diatonically tuned chromatics which might not be suited to use in a rack) Are you by any chance referring to the Lucky 13? Unfortunately ...

I just noticed on the Seydel page that the Symphony 48 has joined the ranks of configurable harmonicas, and so seems to have become the fanciest configurable chromatic so far: https://www.seydel1847.de/epages/Seydel1847.sf/sece8867dde66/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Seydel/Products/55480%28sp%29 Further, it al...

The CIRCULAR TUNING FOR THE 6-NOTES CELTIC MINOR SCALE We may also notice that the 6-notes scales are favored for a harmonica, as the periodicity in the circular tuning is per octave and not per 2 octaves as in 7-notes scales. A good example is the Celtic minor 6-notes scale ( in semitones 2-2-3-2-2...

This is a nice idea :) I've been thinking along similar lines: If you have complete I, IV and V chords in every octave you have all diatonic notes, so why not make a 3-periodic tuning where one combination direction of breath + slide position contains only notes from one chord? This still leaves the...

A "Regular Easy 3rd" repeating every 3 holes is an interesting idea! I haven't tried it, but it inspires some thoughts: Compared to other tunings, it seems to emphasise overblows rather than bending! Let's assume a C harp: C E G C E G C E G C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 D F A D F A D F A D A major drawback...

I think it differs on holes two and three. In a way you're right, the tables for the two tunings are not the same, but one can be obtained by shifting. If you remove the bottom two holes of one of the tunings you get the other, and in that way they are related in the same way as Solo tuning and Orc...

From what you describe, if you want one of Brendan's tunings with no missing notes in the low octave, it sounds like you're after a Lucky 13 in PowerChromatic tuning: https://www.brendan-power.com/lucky13.php#lucky13SoloPC The PowerChromatic tuning has all the notes in the key you choose without ben...

The Regular Scottish tuning is the same as Inverted Bebop , which I presented here: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=612#p2619 I checked with Brendan about this and he agrees. I just wrote a post saying precisely this, that we've seen this before, but you got there before me ...

I don't have any harps in Extended Paddy, and I haven't thought much about them for a long time. Your post made me think though, and it made me want to take up your challenge :) One thing I hadn't considered before was the possibilities for minor play in 3rd position, Dm on a C harp. One nice proper...

@Bendan: Well, for tunings with lots of chords the spiral is hard to avoid :) @IaNerd: It's not so much additive as selective. Pressing just Slider 'a' raises half the notes, pressing also Slider 'b' raises the other half, except for the B. A person accustomed to a slider that raises every note half...