Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

You make good points there Lizzy, hard to argue with them

On the PowerBender you'd only need a right shift of the lower reedplate for extra bends, because it is a regular breath tuning. Currently you can draw bend every hole 1-10, and that gives nearly full chromaticism. You can overblow every hole to achieve full chromaticism. A SlipSlider version of Powe...

MORE OVERBENDS, if you want them... It just struck me that there is even more extra on the SlipSlider than I thought, for some who might want it. Those who play with overbends can continue using their hard-won technique when the harp is in the neutral position, but add to it with new bends AND new o...

Sounds great. If your friend posts some recordings or videos, please share with us

Ah yes, the hole 7 draw dampener... In my comb design, because of the Richter tuning, there is a large chamber at the crossover between the two breath patterns at hole 7. Without the dampener, 7 draw will stay in the airstream when the lower reedplate is pushed to right or left. That's no good for t...

Good questions. The bends I demonstrated are the only new ones possible on a Richter tuned harp. For key C: Hole 2 blow: E to D# Hole 5 blow: E to D# Hole 6 blow: G to F# Hole 7 blow: C to B and Bb Hole 8 draw: D to C# Hole 9 draw: A to G# That's 6 new bends (7 if you include the two semitones on ho...

That's an interesting Slide Diatonic you made there, Crawford. What were the two tunings?

Yay! Been working on this cool little harp for quite a while, good to finally launch it. Check out the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4go9MKwBIU8

And here is the web-page:

http://www.brendan-power.com/SlipSlider.php

Interested to hear your thoughts

Actually, we got one of them out, and it's a pretty cool harp: the SlipSlider.

Here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4go9MKwBIU8

Egg-on-face time sorry folks: Been working hard all week on these babies but encountered a couple of unforeseen problems which necessitated going back into the R&D phase to overcome, and just ran out of time to complete everything for a proper launch. Got to focus elsewhere for a while: I'm off to T...