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- Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:13 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62517
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
I just realised I was wrong in my first post! My understanding at the time was that, at least for the simpler setups we've discussed, the abilities of the staggered reedplate harps was basically a subset of the abilities of a SlipSlider: you get to bend most of the normally unbendable notes but you ...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 9:39 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62517
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
That is what I meant, yes! When I wrote my first post I was apparently confused about where you had cut the reedplate. I guess I thought it made sense to cut it where the breath change happens, but both way works! I made a little diagram before I saw your new post. The two versions have different mo...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 1:01 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62517
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
I'm always glad when I can contribute :D The design I posted, with an extra A, will allow you to bend down the B, and by moving the gap and filling it with an extra C you have created a version that allows you to bend the C down to a Bb. You want to be able to do both. Hm. I suppose in your version ...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 9:36 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62517
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
You mention at the end that you wanted to be able to bend 7 draw. Couldn't this be done by simply adding one extra chamber and one extra reed to your first model, in the gap between your two blow reedplates? Seeing how much time you poured into this you might have found some reason I've overlooked w...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:59 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62517
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Wow! Seems I'll be looking forward to Tuesdays for a while. Thanks for letting us in to your brain! The staggered reedplates is a great start of this series. :) This design seems to, at least superficially, to be a predecessor of and to accomplish much the same thing as the SlipSlider. A downside, y...
- Sat Jun 25, 2022 11:24 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Slide diatonic+tremolo (or octave). Has it been done?
- Replies: 1
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Re: Slide diatonic+tremolo (or octave). Has it been done?
Brendan had something like this a few years ago, it might have been called OctaHarp Selectable (?) or something similar. (edit: Yep! Found it: https://www.brendan-power.com/harmonicas-twin-diatonic.php ) It consisted of two combs arranged "in series", one behind the other, in such a way that the cha...
- Fri May 20, 2022 11:53 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: The SlipSlider MK3 is Released
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8691
Re: The SlipSlider MK3 is Released
Nice! The videos really show the advantages of this approach. The new design does seem more ergonomic, and I suppose it's a bit less intimidating to people who are a bit more on the – shall we say – traditional side. I've been using my (Paddy) slip sliders quite a bit lately, and they're really grow...
- Mon May 16, 2022 7:36 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 63500
Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Not a comment directly on any of the tunings mentioned in this thread. Rather, a comment on the way of diagramming them, which makes no logical sense. Why diagram the high notes *below* the low notes, and why put the second bank of *even higher* notes below that? This stupid way of representing not...
- Wed May 11, 2022 3:09 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 63500
- Tue May 10, 2022 10:51 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 63500
Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Thanks for the read, Patrick! One nice thing you didn't note about your sharp slide version is that the nice chords for playing minor tunes. You are right that spiral tuning is great for playing in different modes, but a great drawback is that it only works for those modes that can be played on whit...