Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

It seems Spiral/Circular tuning variants are capturing the attention of some clever theoreticians in this forum recently.

This is a cool one Edvin! Now I just need to create the good playable DoubleChrom to allow it to be realised. Happy to say I'm making good progress on that, will keep you posted.

It's a bit different, it's this one from his attached file:

Welcome to the forum Dr. Kostas, and thanks for your interesting first post. The tuning that appeals the most to me of the ones you show is the first slider version, with the extra E and B major chords with slider pushed in. You say: "Curiously enough the scale that is produced by sliding the lever ...

Winslow Yerxa is an expert on this style, hopefully he can advise here. I'd be interested too - Winslow?

Yes, Eric Chafer is so talented! Great bass player (as I heard live), and trombone too, apparently! Quite a quirky character, I will try to find out what he's up to these days. Good to see Marcin carrying the torch for Augmented Tuning in fine style. He has several videos using it on YouTube - here ...

This morning I was listening to Marcin Dyak playing in Augmented Tuning. He does it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOKuwijLheY Marcin is a fine player, but his description of himself as the "Worldwide Pioneer of the Augmented Harmonica" is not correct. AFAIK that was France's Eric Chafer, a b...

Edvin wrote: "Will the new design be superior enough to allow a half valved twin chrom?". Definitely. As I go through the stages of developing an idea, prototype parts accumulate. When, as normally happens, I come up against a tough problem that inhibits further progress at present, or even appears ...

Thanks for your interest. Investigating options, hope to have a new model in early new year. Interesting developments in the Switch-Harp zone also, similar time frame.

Zero blow reed gap is the best for the tightest, cleanest sound on the draw reeds. Having a positive gap on the blow reeds allows some air to come in through their slots when you draw, reducing the purity/intensity of the draw reed tone and making the sound a bit more 'breathy'. However, if the chro...

Exploring a few approaches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrCDHu7S39Q