Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Haha... the "egg-laying-wool-milk-sow". I like that - sounds like a ctachy name for this new harp

Over recent years I've spent a lot of time and creative energy devising ways to increase the expression of harmonicas that I don't play myself. In particular, the ubiquitous un-valved Richter diatonic - unchanged in any important respect since 1896. Frustrated with its deficiencies, I gave up on it ...

Here's a review of three very different but impressive new chromatic harmonicas from China:

https://youtu.be/dVxfp9vz1bk

LA harmonica session guru Ross Garren playing the new Overblow-Booster Mk2 in tongue-block style:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6emvJEI00Q

Hi Triona, I took some photos of an old experimental combination of a CX12 shell with a Hering 12-hole chromatic internal unit. I kept the Hering slider assembly and adapted the inside of the CX12 slider area to match the it. The Hering plays well, but no better than with its standard mouthpiece and...

It wasn't planned. However I've enquired, will let you know.

Thanks for your in-depth queries Triona.

To reply properly would require photos etc. I don't have time to reply right now, will come back to this later.

Thanks Triona. Like you I don't use overblows myself - mostly because I play half-valved harps, on which they are impossible anyway. Plus TBH I have always preferred the sound and flexibility of normal reed bending, in combination with altered tunings, for getting missing chromatic notes. That being...

Hi Friends, Today I released a second version of my Overblow-Booster Mk2, designed to fit the popular Hohner Special 20 model. Here's the demo video: https://youtu.be/IvkUCDJAQ5c The latest version has a few tweaks and improvements. More info, photos and ordering are here: https://brendan-power.com/...

Yes, you can of course just use a standard XB40 retuned to your preference. They can still be found on eBay etc. Paddy-Extended is the first octave of Paddy-Richter repeated in all octaves. I first recorded with it on the track 'Tom's Tune' in my 2004 album TRADISH: https://brendan-power.com/Tradish...