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- Sat Aug 31, 2019 6:12 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Shifted/Inverted Bebop tuning for non-slide AND SLIDE harps
- Replies: 21
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Re: Shifted/Inverted Bebop tuning for non-slide AND SLIDE harps
One more observation on your Inverted Bebop tuning. Your intention was to start the C major scale on a draw note, and you get this arrangement (blow note to the left): Bb-C. D-E. F-G. A-B. * Bb-C. D-E. F-G. A-B. * etc Check PowerChromatic in F, starting on hole 3: Bb-C. D-E. F-G. G-A. * Bb-C. D-E. F...
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:47 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Shifted/Inverted Bebop tuning for non-slide AND SLIDE harps
- Replies: 21
- Views: 50667
Re: Shifted/Inverted Bebop tuning for non-slide AND SLIDE harps
Hi Patrick, finally you've come up with a tuning I like ;-) Not that I don't appreciate your many other proposals, but they are often based on chordal possibilities which I think are pretty much unusable outside the bottom octave. This Inverted Bebop ticks my boxes because it allows draw bends on al...
- Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:41 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: PowerBender Versus EdHarmonica
- Replies: 24
- Views: 61932
Re: PowerBender Versus EdHarmonica
Nice diagrams and analysis Rishio.
Since you've been playing this tuning for a while now, do you have any video or recordings you'd care to share?
Since you've been playing this tuning for a while now, do you have any video or recordings you'd care to share?
- Mon Aug 19, 2019 1:09 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Harmonicas with Modular Reedplates
- Replies: 22
- Views: 128961
Re: Harmonicas with Modular Reedplates
Yes. Progress is being made with intention to release, but I've have struck a couple of unforeseen issues and am working through them. Can't give a release date at this stage - "as soon as practicable" is as much as I can offer.
- Sun Aug 11, 2019 10:34 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Legal question about new harmonica ideas. Spreading freely vs patent?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5388
Re: Legal question about new harmonica ideas. Spreading freely vs patent?
Edvin asked a good question: "For a person who doesn't build harmonicas for a living, what is a wise course of action when one makes an original discovery or invention? What is a good level of secrecy?" If you believe you have a new idea or method of significance, the first thing is to check that it...
- Sat Aug 10, 2019 3:36 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Introducing the GASKET-VALVE System
- Replies: 37
- Views: 80530
Re: Introducing the GASKET-VALVE System
Thanks for the helpful feedback Edvin and others. For riveted reed harps, it helps to sand the draw reed flat. However since that's beyond the skills of most players I've started to add rivet holes in the Gasket-valves, allowing the rivet stubs to poke through and ensure they lay flat on stock reedp...
- Fri Aug 09, 2019 8:14 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Double stack Reed plates
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17987
Re: Double stack Reed plates
Just came back to this thread after a week or so. I see it's moved along into the area of practicality, thanks to Edvin. Nice drawings and discussion :-) Not to take anything away from your enthusiasm for a promising concept Dodtsair & Edvin, but just as a factual note: I have already done some work...
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 12:41 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Double stack Reed plates
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17987
Re: Double stack Reed plates
It couldn't work with standard reedplates. Besides, the reeds won't "work in different directions". When you move the draw reedplate to the top of the comb, the reeds become blow reeds. That's because they are now under the reedplate instead of being on the outside, as they were when the drawplate w...
- Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:44 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: New PowerChromatic Video with Notes & TAB
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8275
Re: New PowerChromatic Video with Notes & TAB
Good commentary Edvin, thanks! Yes, it's a good example of a tune modulating between three keys using easy draw bends as opposed to overblows etc. The keys are F Maj (A part), Gm (B part) and Bm (C part). I don't think it would be possible to play this tune convincingly with attractive feeling on a ...
- Wed Jul 24, 2019 4:43 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Brendan Power attends Swedish Harp Meet in September
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18736
Re: Brendan Power attends Swedish Harp Meet in September
Great you're coming to Harpmeet Triona, looking forward to seeing you there