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by IaNerd
Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:50 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Sheet music, tabs, and then THIS ...
Replies: 2
Views: 37262

Sheet music, tabs, and then THIS ...

In the 80s and 90s we talked a lot about "multimedia" because technology was making it more accessible -- for creation and consumption. Now we take for granted that text, graphics and audio can be combined for more powerful experiences. Here are some superb example of this. https://youtu.be/uADNbTnJ...
by IaNerd
Mon May 23, 2022 4:46 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Chromatic with Offset Tonics (COT) as applied to PowerChromatic
Replies: 6
Views: 43295

Re: Chromatic with Offset Tonics (COT) as applied to PowerChromatic

I am more surprised than I should be -- and strangely delighted -- that this works both ways ....

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by IaNerd
Mon May 23, 2022 10:38 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Chromatic with Offset Tonics (COT) as applied to PowerChromatic
Replies: 6
Views: 43295

Re: Chromatic with Offset Tonics (COT) as applied to PowerChromatic

Hmm, I'm not seeing that. But what you say helps me to see the slide-out layer as Dorian (which is minor) Classical tuning in D.
by IaNerd
Sun May 22, 2022 4:11 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Chromatic with Offset Tonics (COT) as applied to PowerChromatic
Replies: 6
Views: 43295

Chromatic with Offset Tonics (COT) as applied to PowerChromatic

I offer this discussion even though I am not sure if the idea is useful. This Forum’s many experienced and insightful members might see possibilities that I am missing. I feel compelled to share this idea because I am surprised and intrigued by what I found when I applied my Chromatic with Offset To...
by IaNerd
Sun May 22, 2022 3:44 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: A parsimonious blues tuning for the Seydel Big Six
Replies: 3
Views: 39664

Re: A parsimonious blues tuning for the Seydel Big Six

I will be in Memphis the first week of October, 2022. If anyone there would like to discuss or try out this tuning, PM me.
by IaNerd
Mon May 16, 2022 8:34 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Replies: 15
Views: 63491

Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?

Winslow, I understand your point. In fact, Brendan and I and others had a detailed discussion on this very topic about a year ago. I have seen many tuning diagrams since I started learning such things fifty years ago. Most of the diagrams that I have seen, including the Configurator at Seydel, are s...
by IaNerd
Mon May 16, 2022 2:01 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Chromatic with Offset Tonics Double Lead Tone (COT-DLT)
Replies: 1
Views: 36530

Chromatic with Offset Tonics Double Lead Tone (COT-DLT)

In this earlier discussion https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=829&sid=20321f3b7f8928c49795f0ca7a26a88b#p3642 I introduced Double Lead Tone (DLT) in association with a Spiral tuning. Then here https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=874#p3904 I introduced what app...
by IaNerd
Thu May 12, 2022 10:11 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Replies: 15
Views: 63491

Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?

I will point out--before anyone else does--that all of the tunings in the posts above lack some of the enharmonics that we would have in more typical chromatic tunings. And that these enharmonics can be useful. True. I acknowledge this as a fair point.
by IaNerd
Thu May 12, 2022 9:19 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Replies: 15
Views: 63491

Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?

Below we have the same as the two tunings in the post just above, except shifted to the right by one hole in order to get at least one full octave of easy blow-draw play in all church modes--in holes 1 through 7. In holes 4 through 12 we have the repeating breath pattern for two full octaves--afford...
by IaNerd
Thu May 12, 2022 8:41 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Replies: 15
Views: 63491

Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?

Here https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=829&sid=18df62d8221d69a2aa76ac2896de92cb#p3642 I explored the combination of Spiral tuning with something that I termed “Double Lead Tone” or DLT. In DLT, there is a periodic “resetting” of the blow/draw pattern which occurs by repeating t...