Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

I was comparing my Country-tuned Seydel Big Six es with my Country-tuned Kongsheng Baby Fat s. Both are of high quality and a joy to use. In particular, I was considering the possibilities afforded by the Kongsheng 's additional hole. It occurred to me that it could be used -- in the blow and the dr...

In the comment above, Edvin asks if I "have considered lowering 7B to an Eb?". No, I had not. But now I will! Thanks. As for the inverted breath pattern in the hole 5, I was just exploring getting a IVdom7 in the blow layer while also providing a bend-less b3rd for the blues scale. As a general -- a...

I now see that the tuning just above is a cousin to third position standard Richter, where an F harp would be used to play G blues, and a tonic is at the 4 draw. Most of this tuning's departures from Richter involve getting the low chords back to what they would have been (albiet inverted) in second...

At https://www.brendan-power.com/harmonicas-irish.php Brendan Power says: "The Slide Diatonic is another of my harmonica inventions. I first recorded with it on my 1994 album New Irish Harmonica, and I've used the Slide Diatonic for all my traditional Irish playing ever since." The tunings for Brend...

Okay. Thanks.

Brendan: Any plans for Chrometta gaskets, etc?

Another possibility is to have the slider transition some of the blow notes to what--in full Richter tuning--would have been their respective blow bends or overblows.

I invite your thoughts on how to tweak this general concept.

Where can one find discussions of the various types of slider ornamentation, e.g. raise by one or two semitones, or lower by one or two? Also: consistent slider effect (across the harp) vs mixed effects? Also: double-diatonic setups. Especially in relation to the various musical genres. Video links ...

Allow me to break this down ... As they are labeled above, the 1 through 10 blow notes are identical to what would be in a C major harp in standard Richter tuning. As such, they make a C major (IV) chord all the way through. The 1 through 5 draw notes are also identical to standard Richter. Holes 0...