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- Wed Nov 30, 2022 8:26 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Fiddle tunes on the Hohner CXB-10/40 by Brendan
- Replies: 8
- Views: 45328
Re: Fiddle tunes on the Hohner CXB-10/40 by Brendan
Hi Triona, Thanks for your typically in-depth enquiry regarding my 'PUFFNSAW' album with Janie Rothfield. I'm glad the music has inspired you to find out more about the harmonicas used; in particular, the modified XB-40s. They have no slider. I just removed the XB mouthpiece and coverplates and put ...
- Sun Oct 23, 2022 11:25 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Two Original Tunings - Demo Video
- Replies: 1
- Views: 29631
Two Original Tunings - Demo Video
Here's a short video explaining and demonstrating a couple of my best-known alternate tunings, PowerDraw and PowerBender: https://youtu.be/hoznOBsTyEc I'm using a couple of my own-brand harps here. These are decent models made by Easttop and Kongsheng; modestly priced to enable players curious to tr...
- Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:45 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Metal used for Lucky 13 covers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 31243
Re: Metal used for Lucky 13 covers
Hi Winslow, all the Lucky 13 covers are brass - coated with chrome or lacquer.
- Sun Aug 21, 2022 6:25 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Which MIDI Harmonica?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 27558
Re: Which MIDI Harmonica?
For quick plug and play with virtually no learning curve, the HM12 with its onboard sounds is best. Just run the audio lead out to your headphones or amp and you're playing instantly. As a pure MIDI controller for outside sounds (such as the great SWAM collection now on iPad), the DM48 is superior. ...
- Fri Aug 19, 2022 2:47 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Playing PowerBenders in different keys
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9931
Re: Playing PowerBenders in different keys
Hi Jack, I'm glad you're enjoying PowerBender tuning :) Unfortunately the sheet music examples in the book can't be transposed. However: 1. Simply read the TAB under the notes score. It works for any key harp! 2. You can transpose the music tracks from the CD. Just save the tracks as MP3s and put th...
- Sat Aug 06, 2022 6:20 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: MODULAR-REED HARMONICA - Released!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 50701
Re: MODULAR-REED HARMONICA - Released!
Thanks for your enthusiasm for the modular reed concept Dorothy! It's always encouraging to get feedback like that for an idea one has put a huge amount of time and effort into 🙂 Though I started with 10-hole harps, I see a lot of potential for using modular reeds to make many other kinds of harmoni...
- Sat Aug 06, 2022 6:09 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Harmonicas with Modular Reedplates
- Replies: 22
- Views: 128633
Re: Harmonicas with Modular Reedplates
Thanks for your positive feedback and suggestions regarding the Modular-Reed harmonica, Dorothy. I'm glad you're loving yours! As far as keeping large numbers of spare reeds safe and well catalogued for easy retrieval goes, that's an interesting question! It was one that we had to solve ourselves, s...
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:43 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Harmonica andiPad connection question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9410
Re: Harmonica andiPad connection question
Thanks for the nice clear pic of your iPad setup Rishio. That's a USB audio interface, which is what I use also (iRig and TC Helicon versions). I'd recommend USB to John, although the basic analogue iRig 1 interface will work fine with iPads with headphone ports if he wants to reduce his costs. Gara...
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:34 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: PowerBender Versus EdHarmonica
- Replies: 24
- Views: 61458
Re: PowerBender Versus EdHarmonica
Sounding good Rishio! As I think we discussed earlier in the thread, I've used my own version of ED Tuning for many years. It's the same repeating scale, but starts on a hole higher up. It's the bottom octave of Paddy Richter (or Melody Maker) repeated, so I call it Paddy-Extended. ED uses the same ...
- Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:04 am
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Harmonica andiPad connection question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9410
Re: Harmonica andiPad connection question
Hi John, I was thinking just the basic iRig 1 interface you mentioned. Plug it into the headphone socket of the iPad. Your harp mic 1/4 inch plug goes in the guitar input, and you can listen via headphones or a lead to your amp from the mini-jack headphone outlet on the iRig. Othe similar audio inte...