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- Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:27 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Status Update
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8167
Re: Status Update
A great thing about going out biking on a regular basis is you get to see seasonal cycles as they happen. Now in the English spring, change is happening rapidly; in a week or two this bare woodland will be a riot of green, utterly transformed. 20 Out of 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4qXk13QmWU...
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:20 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Status Update
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8167
Status Update
Hi Friends, Apologies for my forumic quiescence of late, but it reflects a bit of a change of focus this year. Instead of putting a lot of time and effort into creating niche-market harmonica stuff made in my home workshop (the 3d printed parts etc), I'm only going to release some selected designs t...
- Tue Feb 25, 2020 3:57 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: QUESTION: Is diatonic solo tuned harmonica with recessed reedplates and 12 holes produced?
- Replies: 9
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Re: QUESTION: Is diatonic solo tuned harmonica with recessed reedplates and 12 holes produced?
Hi Arsen... I used Suzuki Harpmaster/Bluesmaster combs. However you could use any lipped combs: Seydel Session, Hohner Special 20 etc. Actually I made my first Stretch Harps from Special 20 combs back in 1980 and used them for rest of the decade. They were 11-hole size, to fit Regular Breath Tuning,...
- Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:54 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: QUESTION: Is diatonic solo tuned harmonica with recessed reedplates and 12 holes produced?
- Replies: 9
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Re: QUESTION: Is diatonic solo tuned harmonica with recessed reedplates and 12 holes produced?
You could make your own by slicing up and gluing together two lipped combs from 10-hole harps, then putting in the reedplates from a 12 hole solo diatonic. I used to offer these (I called them Stretch Harps), but no longer.
- Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:49 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Hohner Auto-Valve Harp
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8221
Re: Hohner Auto-Valve Harp
It's not hard - you only have two reeds to retune, the hole 3 blow on both reedplates, and it seems you know how to do that
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:27 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: SPAH 2020
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4922
Re: SPAH 2020
I think so, but not definite yet - still working out the details. If I attend it would be for the bulk of the festival.
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:25 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Any Power-parts for Chromettas?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5772
Re: Any Power-parts for Chromettas?
A long time ago I made and sold something called "The Hot Chrometta":
But not now, sorry. It's too much of a niche product to spend the time necessary to create products just for it.
But not now, sorry. It's too much of a niche product to spend the time necessary to create products just for it.
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:51 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Lucky 13 - Best harp I've played!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12073
Re: Lucky 13 - Best harp I've played!
Sorry for the incorrect date. Roland, our China partner who does the posting of the Lucky 13 from Shanghai, has been travelling in the USA during the Chinese New Year holiday period, returning home soon. However we now have the complication of the coronavirus issue, with authorities in China orderin...
- Thu Jan 16, 2020 5:31 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Melodically and harmonically versatile slide (or slide-diatonic) tuning
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17225
Re: Melodically and harmonically versatile slide (or slide-diatonic) tuning
Yes, the possibilities are endless if you think of a slide harmonica not as a Chromatic but as essentially a Slide-Diatonic. The slide notes can be configured in so many useful ways to add cool extra functionality, regardless of the base Slide-Out tuning. You show some good options with the hexatoni...
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 9:24 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Question about Easy 3rd / Do it!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16623
Re: Question about Easy 3rd / Do it!
Rick Epping has been playing Irish music to a high level on the standard Easy Third Tuning for many decades. He uses tongue blocking with chord vamping and octaves to get a very full sound. Joel Andersson has adopted Rick's style and extended it further with tongue-switching. It's great for their st...