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- Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:32 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: STAGGERED REEDPLATES UPGRADE - Thanks Edvin!
- Replies: 3
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STAGGERED REEDPLATES UPGRADE - Thanks Edvin!
Recently I posted here about a Richter diatonic harmonica design with staggered reedplates and a front slider. It had 13 bends (compared to 8 on a normal harp), but I hadn't seen how to add the crucial 14th bend on hole 7. I designed the harp between 2016-18. It was very promising but that missing b...
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:25 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: "Harmonica levers" - harmonica idea for irish trad players
- Replies: 3
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Re: "Harmonica levers" - harmonica idea for irish trad players
Thanks for your message Roman. There is a historical free reed instrument that uses this principle of shortening the reed to get higher notes: the single-reed pitch pipe. John Cook did an excellent video on it, and actually made one from scratch: https://youtu.be/V_sPcJkstSo From time to time people...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 3:40 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Magnetically Attractive Reedplate Sliders
- Replies: 2
- Views: 41692
Magnetically Attractive Reedplate Sliders
One of my best inventions so far! It has a lot of potential for many different types of harmonicas, I believe. https://youtu.be/0EZn2AKX40I (This invention is shared under a Creative Commons License: MAGNETICALLY ATTRACTIVE REEDPLATE SLIDERS © 2022 by Brendan Power is licensed under Attribution-NonC...
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:57 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: OVERBLOW-BOOSTER MK2 PARTS KIT - Retrofit Your Own Harp!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 41917
OVERBLOW-BOOSTER MK2 PARTS KIT - Retrofit Your Own Harp!
The Overblow-Booster Mk2 is now available as a Parts Kit to retrofit to your own harp. Here's a hands-on instructional video showing how it's done:
https://youtu.be/j-9AM5eahfY
Link to the Ordering page is in the Description.
https://youtu.be/j-9AM5eahfY
Link to the Ordering page is in the Description.
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 8:47 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62727
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
As often Edvin, you take a single idea and run with it, extrapolating to new applications I hadn't considered. Always surprising and interesting 👍 The rocker arm design shown in my video relies on gravity to hang out of the way in the neutral position. So on conventional diatonic harmonicas it will ...
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:35 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62727
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
TECH TUESDAY #2: Rocker Arm Reed Mute
With harmonicas, the Devil is in the Detail - small things matter a lot! This is a prime example: a quirky little gizmo I invented to do a critical reed-muting job on my SlipSlider Mk1 harmonica.
https://youtu.be/ojRZ6oXrCF4
With harmonicas, the Devil is in the Detail - small things matter a lot! This is a prime example: a quirky little gizmo I invented to do a critical reed-muting job on my SlipSlider Mk1 harmonica.
https://youtu.be/ojRZ6oXrCF4
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:05 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62727
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Thanks for your comments, Edvin. Regarding the advantage you described, of being able to shift the Staggered Reedplate slider whilst playing: it's true when compared to the SlipSlider Mk2 (Special 20 version), but in the MK1 and Mk3 SlipSliders I added Teflon spacer plates, which allow the lower dra...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 11:06 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62727
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Yes, I think we've reached the same point: it's one or the other. Unless some blinding insight enabling both the C and B to bend appears, it seems this is the limit of the Staggered Reedplate design for Richter Tuning. But that's not a bad limit: 6 new bends, to give 14 total. If you use Paddy-Richt...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 3:17 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62727
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
I re-jigged the slider to work with the extra A reed (instead of extra C). This does maintain Richter tuning with slide out and give a draw bend on the B reed, but no blow bend on the C. I think this was what you meant, Edvin? Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to get bends on both the C and B.....
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 12:25 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62727
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Hmmm... Looks as if (as always!) it's not so simple - if one wants to retain pure Richter Tuning with the slide out... I did a design adding an extra blow reed, making 11 reeds on top. However, in this version: 1. To get the C blow bend and D draw bend when I push the slider, the doubled reed needs ...