Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

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

I was comparing my Country-tuned Seydel Big Six es with my Country-tuned Kongsheng Baby Fat s. Both are of high quality and a joy to use. In particular, I was considering the possibilities afforded by the Kongsheng 's additional hole. It occurred to me that it could be used -- in the blow and the dr...

In the comment above, Edvin asks if I "have considered lowering 7B to an Eb?". No, I had not. But now I will! Thanks. As for the inverted breath pattern in the hole 5, I was just exploring getting a IVdom7 in the blow layer while also providing a bend-less b3rd for the blues scale. As a general -- a...

I now see that the tuning just above is a cousin to third position standard Richter, where an F harp would be used to play G blues, and a tonic is at the 4 draw. Most of this tuning's departures from Richter involve getting the low chords back to what they would have been (albiet inverted) in second...

At https://www.brendan-power.com/harmonicas-irish.php Brendan Power says: "The Slide Diatonic is another of my harmonica inventions. I first recorded with it on my 1994 album New Irish Harmonica, and I've used the Slide Diatonic for all my traditional Irish playing ever since." The tunings for Brend...

Okay. Thanks.

Brendan: Any plans for Chrometta gaskets, etc?