Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Consider these four different ways to achieve a minor hexatonic blues scale. Note the similarity between Repeating Richter and Repeating Paddy . Then note the similarity between Repeating Easy Third and Repeating Dmin Over Emin . When transposed, these bottom two tunings are identical except for the...

Edvin -- Yes, it's a subset of many "wider" tunings.

More on this in a moment. Stay tuned ....

This is the best I can find so far (transposed down by two semitones). The tuning in the question above would be the following scale in spiral form with the tonics in the blow layer. But I swear I have seen this in a harmonica context. Raga Suddha Bangala Scale steps in semitones: 2–1–2–2–2–3 Scale ...

Where have I seen this? What is it called?

Blow: D F A ... repeating
Draw: E G B ... repeating

This chart shows 24 variations of Inverted Bebop: 12 sharp-slide keys and 12 flat-slide keys. Each scale's tonics are shown in boldface and a slightly larger font size. Each major diatonic scale is accompanied by a repeating "extra note" which is two semitones lower than the tonic and is located dir...

A US-based customizer pointed out to me that the tuning in the post above would be an exceedingly difficult re-tuning project. With that in mind, I offer the tuning below. What’s in it: 1) Full I and IV chords that are in-line with each other on the low end. 2) Three continuous octaves of G (the I c...

The post above considers -- but does not show -- the 5 and 6 blow notes as Eb. The diagram below does show this. Additionally, it shows a simpler and more central C blues scale (for when playing over the IV chord) which is made possible* by one of those new Eb notes. It is traced out with an orange ...

I made a prototype of the January 2 tuning shown above and tried it out. I liked the main G blues scale (from 4 draw to 8 draw) so much that I decided to string two of them end-to-end in the tuning below. Note that I used Edvin 's Eb advice in the upper G blues scale. This gives the blow holes 1 thr...

Alas, the basic concept of the tuning in the opening post can fit in a Seydel Big Six. We only need to delete hole 1 of the tuning shown above. However, the Kongsheng Baby Fat remains the far less expensive option.

Compare the tuning above with this: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=616&p=2644&hilit=Baby#p2644