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by EdvinW
Mon May 02, 2022 9:30 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?
Replies: 15
Views: 63498

Re: Exploring a "Spiral-Chromatic" concept. Is this new?

Regarding novelty, at least the concept of of only raising the slide-in notes in certain places, in order to change the key, is something I've written about here: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=646&p=2829#p2829 I used different keys than C/C# though. In the linked post I des...
by EdvinW
Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:15 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: JOKER "superchromatic"
Replies: 14
Views: 59798

Re: JOKER "superchromatic"

Phillipe: Excuse us if we get a little too carried away, it happens. Your harmonica, as it is, clearly does what you want it to do, and you should use whatever design you think works best for you. Even for your current design though, overblows might still be something to consider. Each overblow woul...
by EdvinW
Wed Apr 27, 2022 10:42 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: JOKER "superchromatic"
Replies: 14
Views: 59798

Re: JOKER "superchromatic"

Some nice things about your version Edvin especially the bends and bend enharmonics. In part of the scale it also reduces jumps. However, they are bigger in other part. Considering the C scale, look at the big gap between the G and the next C above: 5 holes If you play the G as a bend down from a d...
by EdvinW
Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:26 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: JOKER "superchromatic"
Replies: 14
Views: 59798

Re: JOKER "superchromatic"

The following is, just like Brendan's post, strictly personal opinions. I've not spent months getting practical experience with this sort of tuning, so you could well say it's to some degree conjecture on my part :) First of all, I'd like to reiterate my point from above that the fact that you can l...
by EdvinW
Tue Apr 26, 2022 9:09 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: "Wide v-Chord" re-tuning of Richter
Replies: 1
Views: 31575

Re: "Wide v-Chord" re-tuning of Richter

Interesting! Another advantage for second position is that you get the minor third as a hole 7 blow bend. This note is otherwise normally played with 6 overblow, a hard note to play and impossible if you play half valved! I've used the same effect before with the SlipSlider, by moving the bottom pla...
by EdvinW
Sun Apr 24, 2022 7:16 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: JOKER "superchromatic"
Replies: 14
Views: 59798

Re: JOKER "superchromatic"

Hello Philippe, and welcome to the forum! Your recordings sound great :D If I understand your tuning correctly, each blow note is one full step above the note to the blow note to the right, and draw notes are one half step above the draw in the same hole. Is that correct? If so, it's an interesting ...
by EdvinW
Fri Apr 22, 2022 9:59 pm
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: How to get Extra, Deeper Bends on Harmonica
Replies: 14
Views: 17341

Re: How to get Extra, Deeper Bends on Harmonica

Thanks for the update! I'm much looking forward to see what you come up with :)
by EdvinW
Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:47 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Making the sound of a plucked reed while playing? A new technique! (?)
Replies: 0
Views: 14749

Making the sound of a plucked reed while playing? A new technique! (?)

I was playing around just now, and found something quite peculiar! Check this out: https://cloud.fripost.org/s/pdM7JFtAKKZw4xZ I play a completely normal Seydel Session Steel G (paddy) PowerBender, no magnets or anything. (The only somewhat unusual part of the setup is a curled up sock inside my cup...
by EdvinW
Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:45 pm
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: How to get Extra, Deeper Bends on Harmonica
Replies: 14
Views: 17341

Re: How to get Extra, Deeper Bends on Harmonica

That's a clever idea! Could you comment on any advantages of the slide-bend-enabler over the TurboSlide? The ones I could see are that it's easier to build yourself from a stock harp and the wider range of the 12 holes. The downside could be that the magnet blow bends are not smooth and the larger s...
by EdvinW
Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:51 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: The new, updated DM48X is here!
Replies: 14
Views: 18816

Re: The new, updated DM48X is here!

Brendan wrote:
Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:55 pm
Here's a review:

https://youtu.be/puaBKbhebTs
Thanks, Brendan!

That ribbon controller does seem useful! As I understand it it's quite different from your miniMIDI-JOYstick, is this correct? Could you say something about how the two compare?