Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

I had a listen Edvin, but I don't think those are rolls. If you want to hear them played beautifully, listen to Mary Bergin. She is using rolls and other decorations constantly: https://youtu.be/w725fJV3VXg Listen at tempo, then choose the 0.5x speed option in the YouTube drop-down options. You will...

Thanks Triona. Yes I'd welcome more information about the Chordomonica II. I'm a bit puzzled about how it can give you up/down rolls around one note of a single breath, however. Since the number of reeds is not increased, is it really possible? For example, take a roll on the main note D in the key ...

I've been playing Irish tunes for a long time, and often been frustrated at the inability of the harmonica (with or without slider) to play one of the most common ornaments used by most instruments in the music: the Roll, or Turn. There are two versions, the Long Roll and the Short Roll. They both o...

The Double Chromatic does indeed offer some amazing possibilities, and this is one of them. To be half-valved for bending it would need to be very airtight, which is more challenging given the two sliders. But, assuming that's a given, it's interesting speculate on the many new options it opens up. ...

Personally I think of it as Case 2. I came up with the name "Inverted Solo Tuning" after discovering that I had it lurking in my Slide-Diatonic harmonicas all along - just slightly altered. Basically it's the same key scale, but with the breath directions reversed. Here's the version in key of C I u...

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Edvin (and/or David), a couple of questions about inputting tuning diagrams please: 1. How do you make yours so compact? I'm using the TAB input method. It lines things up well, but spaces out the cells too much. You have good registration in a more compact space, which is especially good for viewin...

WEDIN SLIDE-DIATONIC Here's a new version of the Wedin harmonica tuning concept, designed purely for playing in two keys a fifth apart (G and D in this case) - with two complete in-built scales and adjacent-hole thirds and fifths with the slider. These are to overcome the interval leap problems in t...

Looking forward to hearing these played

I did the Lucky 13 retune to Wedin Diatonic before seeing Edvin's initial post with his alternative major key version. For the home key of D it does give nice extra options with the doubled notes. It addresses the wider interval issues I mentioned for the version I used. It also gives bends on the 1...