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- Fri Mar 30, 2018 12:45 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Upcoming this Week: Two New Products
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10061
Re: Upcoming this Week: Two New Products
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...
- Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:11 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Upcoming this Week: Two New Products
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10061
Upcoming this Week: Two New Products
A pre-annoncement that two new products will be launched this coming week - keep an eye out
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 11:47 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Power Chromatic
- Replies: 76
- Views: 172476
Re: Power Chromatic
The Lucky 13 samples in Solo and PowerChromatic arrived from Easttop. Sounding good - will see how they work half-valved.
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:20 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Unibender
- Replies: 30
- Views: 43751
Re: Unibender
Rick, check these babies out: http://www.smartproducts.com/check_valves_series_100_cartridge_specialty.php The smallest ones could be arranged in line in a diatonic harmonica mouthpiece (hole spacing is 7.5mm). However, I doubt two things: 1.Their lowest operating pressure of 0.09 psi is low enough ...
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:29 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Unibender
- Replies: 30
- Views: 43751
Re: Unibender
Interesting posts people :-) I'm off to Denmark and Sweden tomorrow doing a few gigs, and am taking a couple of UniBender prototypes to play and show a couple of friends. One is Joel Andersson, an excellent young harp tech, who works ubder the Hohner Affiliated Customiser scheme. He has shown quite ...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 5:34 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Serendipity in Action: Inverted-Solo Tuning
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5055
Serendipity in Action: Inverted-Solo Tuning
I inadvertently created an interesting new tuning nearly 30 years ago, without realising it until quite recently. In the late 1980s I started retuning chromatics to make what I call Slide-Diatonics. These were primarily for Irish music, where I was playing in the home key and related modes of the ch...
- Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:34 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: "Super-Duper Chord Buddy" ... for BP's Quad-Six system
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7036
Re: "Super-Duper Chord Buddy" ... for BP's Quad-Six system
Good practical suggestion
- Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:29 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Asiabend TABS
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6512
Re: Asiabend
Good advice Triona - thanks!
- Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:28 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: comb versus other tunings than C
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6048
Re: comb versus other tunings than C
My Universal PowerComb for the Hohner wood-comb chromatics will fit all keys, so no worries. Info here: http://www.brendan-power.com/combs-hohner.php#12 Ordering for lipped chromatic PowerCombs is suspended at he moment while we research new methods/materials for adding the lip. In the emantime I re...
- Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:24 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Unibender
- Replies: 30
- Views: 43751
Re: Unibender
Thanks for your sympathetic comments, Lizzy and Triona. The good thing is I have a bit of a deadline coming up for this and a couple of other designs that I need to finish patent papers for in early April, so that will help concentrate the mind