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
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- Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:35 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
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- Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:05 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 11:23 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
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Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Hmmm.... I'm trying to visualise the physical parts over a coffee, and starting to have some doubts about whether it's possible to retain pure Richter tuning with the slider out when adding this new reed and bending ability...
I need to go to the computer and draw it out. Talk soon...
I need to go to the computer and draw it out. Talk soon...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:15 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
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Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Hi Edvin, that's brilliant! Last night I went back to my CAD drawings and tried to figure out how to get the C and B bend whilst retaining the D bend. However I only focussed on my latest comb design (where the reedplate isn't split). I figured out a way with a second slide how to get the C bend wit...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:44 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
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Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
TECH TUESDAY #1 - STAGGERED REEDPLATES
https://youtu.be/uiUKCVg7M6I
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this idea
https://youtu.be/uiUKCVg7M6I
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this idea
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:59 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
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TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Hi friends..! I'm starting a new video series called TECH TUESDAY, where each week I explain one of the many original harmonica ideas I've been working on over the years - including showing the CAD design drawings where appropriate. TECH TUESDAYS - Series Introduction https://youtu.be/AnYUkMHQxsE Ho...
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:48 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: X-HARPS : Personal Experimental Harmonica Project
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Re: X-HARPS : Personal Experimental Harmonica Project
Haha... the "egg-laying-wool-milk-sow". I like that - sounds like a ctachy name for this new harp