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- Wed Jan 25, 2023 12:25 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
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Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Hmmm... Looks as if (as always!) it's not so simple - if one wants to retain pure Richter Tuning with the slide out... I did a design adding an extra blow reed, making 11 reeds on top. However, in this version: 1. To get the C blow bend and D draw bend when I push the slider, the doubled reed needs ...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 11:23 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 67080
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Hmmm.... I'm trying to visualise the physical parts over a coffee, and starting to have some doubts about whether it's possible to retain pure Richter tuning with the slider out when adding this new reed and bending ability...
I need to go to the computer and draw it out. Talk soon...
I need to go to the computer and draw it out. Talk soon...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:15 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 67080
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Hi Edvin, that's brilliant! Last night I went back to my CAD drawings and tried to figure out how to get the C and B bend whilst retaining the D bend. However I only focussed on my latest comb design (where the reedplate isn't split). I figured out a way with a second slide how to get the C bend wit...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:44 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 67080
Re: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
TECH TUESDAY #1 - STAGGERED REEDPLATES
https://youtu.be/uiUKCVg7M6I
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this idea
https://youtu.be/uiUKCVg7M6I
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this idea
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:59 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
- Replies: 15
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TECH TUESDAYS - Sharing Harmonica Inventions
Hi friends..! I'm starting a new video series called TECH TUESDAY, where each week I explain one of the many original harmonica ideas I've been working on over the years - including showing the CAD design drawings where appropriate. TECH TUESDAYS - Series Introduction https://youtu.be/AnYUkMHQxsE Ho...
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:48 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: X-HARPS : Personal Experimental Harmonica Project
- Replies: 12
- Views: 52029
Re: X-HARPS : Personal Experimental Harmonica Project
Haha... the "egg-laying-wool-milk-sow". I like that - sounds like a catchy name for this new harp
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:00 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: X-HARPS : Personal Experimental Harmonica Project
- Replies: 12
- Views: 52029
X-HARPS : Personal Experimental Harmonica Project
Over recent years I've spent a lot of time and creative energy devising ways to increase the expression of harmonicas that I don't play myself. In particular, the ubiquitous un-valved Richter diatonic - unchanged in any important respect since 1896. Frustrated with its deficiencies, I gave up on it ...
- Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Review of Three New Chinese Chromatics
- Replies: 4
- Views: 40411
Review of Three New Chinese Chromatics
Here's a review of three very different but impressive new chromatic harmonicas from China:
https://youtu.be/dVxfp9vz1bk
https://youtu.be/dVxfp9vz1bk
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:46 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: OVERBLOW-BOOSTER MK2 - Special 20 Version
- Replies: 3
- Views: 37603
Re: OVERBLOW-BOOSTER MK2 - Special 20 Version
LA harmonica session guru Ross Garren playing the new Overblow-Booster Mk2 in tongue-block style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6emvJEI00Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6emvJEI00Q
- Sun Jan 01, 2023 3:10 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Fiddle tunes on the Hohner CXB-10/40 by Brendan
- Replies: 8
- Views: 45755
Re: Fiddle tunes on the Hohner CXB-10/40 by Brendan
Hi Triona, I took some photos of an old experimental combination of a CX12 shell with a Hering 12-hole chromatic internal unit. I kept the Hering slider assembly and adapted the inside of the CX12 slider area to match the it. The Hering plays well, but no better than with its standard mouthpiece and...