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by Brendan
Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:15 am
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Replies: 15
Views: 62509

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...
by Brendan
Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:44 pm
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Replies: 15
Views: 62509

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 💡
by Brendan
Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:59 pm
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Replies: 15
Views: 62509

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...
by Brendan
Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:48 pm
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: X-HARPS : Personal Experimental Harmonica Project
Replies: 12
Views: 35620

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 :)
by Brendan
Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:00 pm
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: X-HARPS : Personal Experimental Harmonica Project
Replies: 12
Views: 35620

X-HARPS : Personal Experimental Harmonica Project

Over recent years I've spent a lot of time and creative energy devising ways to increase the expression of harmonicas that I don't play myself. In particular, the ubiquitous un-valved Richter diatonic - unchanged in any important respect since 1896. Frustrated with its deficiencies, I gave up on it ...
by Brendan
Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:24 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Review of Three New Chinese Chromatics
Replies: 4
Views: 37635

Review of Three New Chinese Chromatics

Here's a review of three very different but impressive new chromatic harmonicas from China:

https://youtu.be/dVxfp9vz1bk
by Brendan
Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:46 am
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: OVERBLOW-BOOSTER MK2 - Special 20 Version
Replies: 3
Views: 35225

Re: OVERBLOW-BOOSTER MK2 - Special 20 Version

LA harmonica session guru Ross Garren playing the new Overblow-Booster Mk2 in tongue-block style:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6emvJEI00Q
by Brendan
Sun Jan 01, 2023 3:10 pm
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: Fiddle tunes on the Hohner CXB-10/40 by Brendan
Replies: 8
Views: 45246

Re: Fiddle tunes on the Hohner CXB-10/40 by Brendan

Hi Triona, I took some photos of an old experimental combination of a CX12 shell with a Hering 12-hole chromatic internal unit. I kept the Hering slider assembly and adapted the inside of the CX12 slider area to match the it. The Hering plays well, but no better than with its standard mouthpiece and...
by Brendan
Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:37 pm
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: Workshop with Brendan at Seydel's in Klingenthal DE
Replies: 2
Views: 33565

Re: Workshop with Brendan at Seydel's in Klingenthal DE

It wasn't planned. However I've enquired, will let you know.
by Brendan
Mon Dec 26, 2022 5:17 pm
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: Fiddle tunes on the Hohner CXB-10/40 by Brendan
Replies: 8
Views: 45246

Re: Fiddle tunes on the Hohner CXB-10/40 by Brendan

Thanks for your in-depth queries Triona.

To reply properly would require photos etc. I don't have time to reply right now, will come back to this later.