Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Hello friends! This Forum is for intelligent discussion on all things innovative and different with respect to harmonicas. There are two main boards: Brendan’s Custom Harmonicas, Tunings etc is devoted to my stuff in all its forms: harps, tunings, books, recordings etc. Since my custom harps and tun...

Thanks Gary, a similarly afflicted alt tunings junkie like myself. Though you have it worse, I think... ;) PowerChromatic is designed for half-valved setup, as it allows semitone bends on all draw notes for easy chromatic playing with bends. I often use half-valved PowerChromatic in the Mixolydian p...

Thanks Cathal. Yes, Easy Thirds tuning would be a good option for the Lucky 13 for sure :) For those not familiar with it, Easy Thirds duplicates holes 4/5/6 of the 10 hole-diatonic lower down. So on a C Lucky 13 it would be: BLOW C E G - C E G C E G C E G C HOLE 1 2 3 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DRAW D ...

Hi Jomiba, it's coming soon. It will be double Paddy Richter of course: Paddy Richter in both of the two low octaves. I've used that myself for quite a while in a custom-tuned version of the Hohner 365. Here is a video where you can hear Double Paddy Richter in D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5...

Suzuki had a very fertile period of development and innovation for about 5 years during the period I was working for them. All the chromatics were upgraded to the V2 lipped comb type, with several new models added: Fabulous, G-48, Sirius, and the Manji, Olive, SUB30 in diatonics. Just the low Manjis...

Thanks Ivan. I did make lipped versions of the 270 PowerComb for a while (photos are still up on my website: http://www.brendan-power.com/combs-hohner.php#lipped), but they were tricky to print and sand so I discontinued them However you could glue your Hohner slider assembly backplate on to the fro...

Thanks Hannes. If you're looking for 3 Octave single-reed diatonic Solo tuned harps, there are already some options available. Here's a few: 1. Chinese 12 Hole Solo-tuned Diatonics, un-valved. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Swan-Diatonic-Harmonica-12-Hole-Key-of-C-Harmonica-FREE-POST-Best-on-Web-/151...

This thread is related to new harmonica models from Hohner, Suzuki, Seydel, Easttop, Tombo, Hering, and others. If you have any comments about their new harps, or what you'd like to see them make, feel free to post it here. The diatonic scene seems to have been pretty settled, nothing much really ne...

Welcome to my new forum! Thanks for stopping by: I hope you'll register and start posting :) This month we're running an international competition for the Lucky 13 harmonica. Anyone who owns or can beg, borrow or steal one can enter. All the details are here: http://www.brendan-power.com/lucky13.php...

Welcome to my new forum! Thanks for stopping by: I hope you'll register and start posting :) Writing Instructional Books/CDs is very rewarding, but also time consuming. I have four books out now, and each took around a month of total concentration, dropping everything else. It's hard to do that with...