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- Thu Apr 04, 2019 4:02 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Any news?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 51361
Re: Any news?
A bit of news... After much struggle trying many different approaches over the past few weeks on alternative methods for getting easy overbends on stock harps, I've finally arrived at a good solution. It will be an assembly that players can easily retrofit onto existing harps. I'm just now in the pr...
- Thu Apr 04, 2019 3:12 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Reels
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6611
Re: Reels
Reels can sound nice played slowly, but if you want to play with others in a session you need to be capable of playing them fast as well, as that is the norm.
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:28 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Diatonic PowerCombs and Stealth-Valves Released
- Replies: 26
- Views: 45074
Re: Diatonic PowerCombs and Stealth-Valves Released
Interested to hear your thoughts Lizzy. April now for mine, B
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 7:13 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Any news?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 51361
Re: Any news?
Wow! Thanks for the links. That guy Larry Howell is some designer/engineer! Fascinating stuff
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 1:08 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Any news?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 51361
Re: Any news?
Actually one area I have been exploring, just for fun, is alternative approaches to damping reeds inside diatonic harmonicas to get pure sounding, loud overbends. My Overblow Booster is one way, inspired my Masaru Hashimoto's design for the Suzuki Overdrive. It encloses the reeds in outer comb chamb...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 6:38 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Old Swedish harmonica music (and a harmonica with bells!)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16909
Re: Old Swedish harmonica music (and a harmonica with bells!)
Since its related, there is some wonderful NEW Swedish and other Scandinavian harmonica music being performed and recorded beautifully by these two guys:
https://youtu.be/lkvTJceApzU
https://youtu.be/lkvTJceApzU
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 6:26 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Bending very far, and quarter notes
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4026
Re: Bending very far, and quarter notes
Its an interesting question. Actually I've been talking about this recently with Roni Eytan, who plays my Quartertone DoubleChrom. It works, but is an expensive, unwieldy beast, so I was looking for another way to give him the quarter tone options he needs in a simpler harmonica. What you can do is ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:40 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Any news?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 51361
Re: Any news?
Hi Lizzy, All of these and more harmonica products/parts are in various stages of development, but in recent months I've been away travelling, as well as become focussed on a collaborative recording project - which is currently taking up quite a bit of time. In a general sense, discussing new produc...
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:31 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Idea for slideless chromatic harp
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15897
Re: Idea for slideless chromatic harp
Robert: the Suzuki Overdrive gives the option to have both overblow assist and isolated-reed expression (as with valves). The SlipSlider gives isolated-reed expression on the blow notes if you slide the draw reedplate only halfway. Doing that stops the draw reeds from vibrating, because they are abo...
- Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:27 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Idea for slideless chromatic harp
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15897
Re: Idea for slideless chromatic harp
Another approach is to adopt a design like the Tombo S50. Pat Missin has written a good article on it and other slideless chromatics here: https://www.patmissin.com/ffaq/q24.html This requires no bending or overblowing to get a chromatic scale, though they are possible. Quite an interesting harmonic...