Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

THE NEW HARP: THINGS TO RETAIN Many overblow players might profess to be perfectly happy with customised versions of a 19th century harmonica design, but if a 21st century model became available that could do all of what a custom Marine Band can and much more, then I'm sure serious players would be ...

You're right Gary! And the big tremolo chromatic. Suzuki deserve credit for going out on a limb with such adventurous models.

Tony: check the Turboslide thread for a suggestion re. Major Cross.

I hadn't seen the video, thanks Gary. One good feature of the Turboslide you didn't mention that is relevant to Major Cross is that it allows extra draw note bending. Major Cross is a good logical tuning, but it has some semitone intervals between blow and draw notes that eliminate the possibility o...

Nice one Tony, well done on getting your Major Cross done with Seydel. They are such a player-friendly company, the best of all of the manufacturers in working with players to give us options, by far.

Wow, loving that sound Yeong-shiang! You are really using the bends on the half-valved PowerChromatic well

Will be available to order by mid-April, delivery in May/June. If you want it fast, do it by hand.

Hi Weetin, glad you're liking your Auto-Valve PowerCombs :) The Lucky 13 is not Solo tuned, it's 10-hole Richter with an added lower octave. Here is the scale layout for key of C: BLOW C E G C E G C E G C E G C HOLE 1* 2* 3* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DRAW D G B D G B D F A B D F A Check out the Lucky 13 ...

THE PROBLEM, AND SOME SOLUTIONS As someone who started playing on the 10 hole diatonic, I share a love for the sound of this little harmonica with the majority of harp players on the planet. Like some of them, as soon as I got proficient and wanted to explore music genres that involved key changes a...

Talking of "Interesting Alternative Ideas in the Harmonica Scene", they don't come much more interesting or alternative than the new DM48 MIDI harmonica: http://www.lekholminstruments.com/ I was honoured by the inventor Erik Lekholm to be his beta tester of the first prototype. It was a fascinating ...

Hi Patrice, thanks for joining us here :) This forum is partly about my stuff, but also very open to interesting alternative ideas in the wider harmonica scene. So if you know or hear of anything, let us know. For example, since you are French, what's new with the local scene - and Yonberg in partic...