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- Sun Mar 26, 2017 12:40 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Controllable Note Bending on MIDI Harmonicas - What are the Options?
- Replies: 14
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Controllable Note Bending on MIDI Harmonicas - What are the Options?
Talking of "Interesting Alternative Ideas in the Harmonica Scene", they don't come much more interesting or alternative than the new DM48 MIDI harmonica: http://www.lekholminstruments.com/ I was honoured by the inventor Erik Lekholm to be his beta tester of the first prototype. It was a fascinating ...
- Sun Mar 26, 2017 12:07 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Why this Forum?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 135415
Re: Why this Forum?
Hi Patrice, thanks for joining us here :) This forum is partly about my stuff, but also very open to interesting alternative ideas in the wider harmonica scene. So if you know or hear of anything, let us know. For example, since you are French, what's new with the local scene - and Yonberg in partic...
- Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:58 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Asia bend, Auto Valve comb and the Lucky 13!!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 36505
Re: Asia bend, Auto Valve comb and the Lucky 13!!
Thanks for joining us Burke, I always enjoy reading your thoughts in emails and other forums. I will emphasise to Easttop again the importance of maintaining standards with tuning. Bit it's good that more and more players, not just harp techs like you, have the skills now to fine tune and gap their ...
- Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:43 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: HAPPY ACCIDENTS: the Law of Unintended (Good) Consequences
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13787
Re: HAPPY ACCIDENTS: the Law of Unintended (Good) Consequences
Winslow, if you know Harland could you make him aware of this forum and invite him to contribute? Or please send me his email address and I'll do it. It would be fantastic to have someone like that here to let us know about some of the weird and wonderful harmonicas produced in the past. It could be...
- Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:30 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Lucky 13 in PowerBender, PowerDraw & Paddy Richter
- Replies: 36
- Views: 77740
Re: Lucky 13 in PowerBender, PowerDraw & Paddy Richter
Well done on being pro-active, looking forward to hearing it
- Sat Mar 25, 2017 5:32 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: HAPPY ACCIDENTS: the Law of Unintended (Good) Consequences
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13787
Re: HAPPY ACCIDENTS: the Law of Unintended (Good) Consequences
Thanks for that fascinating historical detail Winslow. You state: "The other main ways of building a harmonica, the Wiener (Viennese) and Knittlinger, put blow and draw reeds side by side so as to have two complete sets of reeds (one set on each reedplate) and always sound two reeds (two blow or two...
- Sat Mar 25, 2017 5:20 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Power Chromatic
- Replies: 76
- Views: 188898
Re: Power Chromatic - also Left-Handed Chromatics
Nice one :) I see you're left-handed playing a standard right-handed chrom. Was it strange/annoying having to learn that way, with low notes on the right? Last year I created a bunch of left-handed combs for various chromatic models, including the CX-12: http://www.brendan-power.com/combs-lefties.ph...
- Sat Mar 25, 2017 5:10 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Asia bend, Auto Valve comb and the Lucky 13!!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 36505
Re: Asia bend, Auto Valve comb and the Lucky 13!!
Glad you're liking it Sachlaw. If they are of any help, there are a bunch of videos on the AsiaBend page of my website:
http://www.brendan-power.com/harmonicas ... p#asiabend
http://www.brendan-power.com/harmonicas ... p#asiabend
- Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:06 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Inputting Harmonica Tunings
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11528
Inputting Harmonica Tunings
The board Admin David Ireland has just shown me how to input harmonica tunings with clarity on this forum. It's really easy, even I can do it! Since alt tunings will feature quite a bit here I'm sure, here's how it's done: 1. Select the </> symbol in the button above the text box. 2. The words (code...
- Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:13 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: HAPPY ACCIDENTS: the Law of Unintended (Good) Consequences
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13787
HAPPY ACCIDENTS: the Law of Unintended (Good) Consequences
We all know the story of how Richter tuning, created by a German in the 19th Century to play oom-pah music on the harmonica in 1st position, turned out to be magically wonderful for playing wailing , soulful Blues music when the harp was played in the 'wrong' key. 2nd Position blues harp was born, a...