Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

From above: "Indeed, a skilled professional might not need them. He can do everything with any standard tuning." This is true of only in the very limited sense of single-note play. Richter and some alternate tunings are actually pretty slim in terms of chordal play. Which is fine, if you want to wor...

Just wondering ... If you had a harp with Richter's 1 through 7, followed by an octave of solo (i.e. Richter's 4 through 7 but an octave higher), you would now have an eleven-hole "Richter-double-solo". Would I be correct in guessing that this has already been done? Maybe in a 12-, 13-, 14- or 16-ho...

The August 02 tuning (above) becomes the August 28 tuning (below) by making the following modifications: 1. Delete the notes in chamber 6. 2. Move the the notes that had been in chambers 7-10 leftward by one space. 3. Fill the vacated chamber 10 with a C blow and a D draw. Why this tuning matters: A...

Brendan: You mentioned at one point that you had designed an OB for regular-breath tunings like PowerBender, PowerDraw etc. (i.e. a single insert for the blow reedplate). Will you make these available for purchase? If so, for which brands/models of harps?

Here is the tuning introduced in the August 02 post, above.

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On the tuning posted July 20 (above), I'm now rethinking the 5 draw. Since a dominant 7th chord typically resolves to the the I chord , it doesn't seem so important to have a dom7 variant of the I chord. If that 5 draw is raised one semitone, then the V chord gets extended leftward by one more hole....

UPDATE: In addition to harmonica, this spreadsheet has also been useful in the tuning of certain guitars. A friend of mine is a life-long musician and music educator. We used this spreadsheet to re-tune three instruments: (1) his 6-string lap slide guitar (from standard ET C6 to 4:5:6:7 ratios), an...