Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Brendan, the adaptation of DLT that you show in the box above is Inverted Bebop (mentioned four entries above this one). The two tunings differ only by that one note.

Here https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=844#p3742 I showed that D major is practically tied with G major as being the dominating keys of Irish music. Now let us assume a D major harp with DLT (Double Leading Tone) tuning, as described here: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/vi...

In Solo, two draw notes can bend only one semitone, and two cannot bend. In HFS Solo, two draw notes can bend either one or two semitones, and two can bend only one semitone. In PowerChromatic, four draw notes can bend only one semitone. In HFS PowerChromatic, four draw notes can bend either one or ...

Of course, a stud like Pat Missin can play drone tunes on a standard harp: https://www.patmissin.com/uncommon/uncommon12.html

Vaguely, but yes. Drone notes might well comprise half of a harp's reeds. OR there could be some small device that could play a truly uninterrupted drone note (a la the D drone of uilleann pipes) while that person is also playing harmonica. A battery-powered digital unit would be easy to make, but t...

Brendan-- I would guess that you are familiar with shruti boxes. I have used mine for droning in tradition Irish music sessions. Your Modular Reed Harmonica system has me thinking about a mini Shruti box or mini bagpipe that takes Modular Reeds.

I just noticed that my re-tuning (above) has a proper Gmin7 chord from draw 3 to 6, and then that same chord is implied (sans root) thereafter. Sweet!

I ordered four Hohner PentaHarp s and have given them a short trial. One quick niggle: Penta Harp is a misnomer. This tuning is a repeating minor hexa tonic blues scale. Obviously I was not invited to the focus group. Another niggle: Hohner claims that every draw note is bendable. Well, sort of. The...

I appreciate those encouraging words. As for: The main disadvantage is that you would need to own a huge number of harmonicas to cover all models in all keys to use your system for traditional analogue harps! That might be true for a stage or recording artist like you -- but I can count my lifetime ...

It's a fair and good question. Ever since I introduced Inverted Bebop https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=612&hilit=Inverted+bebop#p2619 over two years ago I have been fascinated by keeping the tonic, third and fifth in the draw layer. I understand that having a note-bending joys...