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by Harmonicatunes
Wed Mar 29, 2017 1:32 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: OVERBLOWING - Where to From Here?
Replies: 20
Views: 36454

Re: "OVERBLOWING - Where to From Here?" - a Thought Experiment.

I have little to add to the overblowing accounts above, except for this. You see, I can't do them. Perhaps if I sat down for a week and did nothing else, they might come. Brendan showed me a trick many years back, taping the blow 6 blow closed, so that the overblow had to work. It did, but I never m...
by Harmonicatunes
Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:12 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: New Models from the Big Manufacturers
Replies: 13
Views: 39424

Re: New Models from the Big Manufacturers

Indeed, Seydel have been great to work with. Receptive to ideas, generous with sample instruments. Being a small harmonica only company, they are not constrained in the way that other manufacturers might be.
by Harmonicatunes
Mon Mar 27, 2017 6:05 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: New Models from the Big Manufacturers
Replies: 13
Views: 39424

Re: New Models from the Big Manufacturers

Last year I hooked up with Seydel, we worked together on a new Major Cross tuned diatonic. It was released earlier this year. Seydel offer a range of custom tunings, so adding Major Cross was easily done. They went further however, and equipped the Major Cross models with a distinctive light blue co...