Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Thank you, BP.

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I've been exploring and writing about a tuning which includes a repeating chunk of this: BLOW: BDFA DRAW: CEGB Before I embarrass myself again by "introducing" something that is already established ... please let me know if you recognize this sequence. Details about its provenance would also be appr...

Since the introduction of Lucky 13s in PowerChromatic tunings, we now have an easier way to re-tune into natural minor. See this: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=827#p3630

Contributor Lucho showed here: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=818 that PowerChromatic can very easily be re-tuned to a Natural Minor scale. For those who like their harps to be "inverted" (à la Dick Fosbury ), here is another way to go from PowerChromatic to Natural Minor: A...

You've got a lovely and simple re-tuning there, Lucho. Bravo! I've got a re-tuning which is similar insofar as it converts a Lucky 13 to a natural minor tuning. But mine is different in two ways. First, it is based on a Solo Lucky 13. Second, the resultant natural minor scale has an "inverted" breat...

With appropriate tunings, this could be a slideless/valveless alternative to their Sampler model.

Q#3: Is the reed interaction of draw bending any different when reeds are above/below each other as opposed to side-by-side?

Triona --

Thanks for your detailed response. Interesting!

As for my own Q#1, I intended "slur" to mean a glissando or smooth overlapping transition from one note to another. This might be a USA usage of the word slur.

Two questions.... #1. I wonder if this model is therefore capable of a more convincing/overlapping slur between two blow notes of vertical alignment, or of two draw notes of vertical alignment. Any owners trying this? #2. Would/could this new mouthpiece essentially convert a compatible straight-tune...