Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Yay! Been working on this cool little harp for quite a while, good to finally launch it. Check out the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4go9MKwBIU8

And here is the web-page:

http://www.brendan-power.com/SlipSlider.php

Interested to hear your thoughts

Actually, we got one of them out, and it's a pretty cool harp: the SlipSlider.

Here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4go9MKwBIU8

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...

A pre-annoncement that two new products will be launched this coming week - keep an eye out

The Lucky 13 samples in Solo and PowerChromatic arrived from Easttop. Sounding good - will see how they work half-valved.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Good practical suggestion

Good advice Triona - thanks!