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- Thu Sep 05, 2019 10:10 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Accordion Reed Harmonica Experiments
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19733
Re: Accordion Reed Harmonica Experiments
Yes Triona, Joel will be there - he's one of the main organisers of Harpmeet. He lives a little inland from Malmö, so it's quite a way south off your track from Varburg to Norrköping. Possibly we may be traveling on the 11th as well, not sure. Anyway we're bringing lots of tools and stuff to keep th...
- Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:08 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Accordion Reed Harmonica Experiments
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19733
Accordion Reed Harmonica Experiments
This week I'm getting back to messing with harmonicas made with accordion reeds. In the past I made a couple of test instruments, which showed the potential and allayed any concerns over steel reeds rusting. They don't, if you let the harp dry off after playing and it's kept in a dry environment. A ...
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:33 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Larry Adler Pro 12
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7923
Re: Larry Adler Pro 12
Thanks Triona for your helpful and accurate replies. Yes, my Universal Hohner 12 hole chromatic comb will fit the Larry Adler, because the only things different about it from the 270 are the coverplates.
- Sat Aug 31, 2019 6:12 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Shifted/Inverted Bebop tuning for non-slide AND SLIDE harps
- Replies: 21
- Views: 50025
Re: Shifted/Inverted Bebop tuning for non-slide AND SLIDE harps
One more observation on your Inverted Bebop tuning. Your intention was to start the C major scale on a draw note, and you get this arrangement (blow note to the left): Bb-C. D-E. F-G. A-B. * Bb-C. D-E. F-G. A-B. * etc Check PowerChromatic in F, starting on hole 3: Bb-C. D-E. F-G. G-A. * Bb-C. D-E. F...
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:47 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Shifted/Inverted Bebop tuning for non-slide AND SLIDE harps
- Replies: 21
- Views: 50025
Re: Shifted/Inverted Bebop tuning for non-slide AND SLIDE harps
Hi Patrick, finally you've come up with a tuning I like ;-) Not that I don't appreciate your many other proposals, but they are often based on chordal possibilities which I think are pretty much unusable outside the bottom octave. This Inverted Bebop ticks my boxes because it allows draw bends on al...
- Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:41 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: PowerBender Versus EdHarmonica
- Replies: 24
- Views: 59934
Re: PowerBender Versus EdHarmonica
Nice diagrams and analysis Rishio.
Since you've been playing this tuning for a while now, do you have any video or recordings you'd care to share?
Since you've been playing this tuning for a while now, do you have any video or recordings you'd care to share?
- Mon Aug 19, 2019 1:09 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Harmonicas with Modular Reedplates
- Replies: 22
- Views: 127430
Re: Harmonicas with Modular Reedplates
Yes. Progress is being made with intention to release, but I've have struck a couple of unforeseen issues and am working through them. Can't give a release date at this stage - "as soon as practicable" is as much as I can offer.
- Sun Aug 11, 2019 10:34 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Legal question about new harmonica ideas. Spreading freely vs patent?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5270
Re: Legal question about new harmonica ideas. Spreading freely vs patent?
Edvin asked a good question: "For a person who doesn't build harmonicas for a living, what is a wise course of action when one makes an original discovery or invention? What is a good level of secrecy?" If you believe you have a new idea or method of significance, the first thing is to check that it...
- Sat Aug 10, 2019 3:36 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Introducing the GASKET-VALVE System
- Replies: 37
- Views: 78099
Re: Introducing the GASKET-VALVE System
Thanks for the helpful feedback Edvin and others. For riveted reed harps, it helps to sand the draw reed flat. However since that's beyond the skills of most players I've started to add rivet holes in the Gasket-valves, allowing the rivet stubs to poke through and ensure they lay flat on stock reedp...
- Fri Aug 09, 2019 8:14 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Double stack Reed plates
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17316
Re: Double stack Reed plates
Just came back to this thread after a week or so. I see it's moved along into the area of practicality, thanks to Edvin. Nice drawings and discussion :-) Not to take anything away from your enthusiasm for a promising concept Dodtsair & Edvin, but just as a factual note: I have already done some work...