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by IaNerd
Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:27 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: … these three options … -- 12-hole chromatic edition!
Replies: 0
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… these three options … -- 12-hole chromatic edition!

In this discussion https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4633#p4633 I invited your thoughts on three similar tunings. As of today the unanimous decision has been that OPTION A was the best . Notice how that was in the context of 10-holed tunings – though I had alluded to the possibilit...
by IaNerd
Sat Feb 15, 2025 1:39 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Please share your thoughts on these three options.
Replies: 8
Views: 6570

Re: Please share your thoughts on these three options.

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thanks to the straight layout of each key on one reedplate each
I love that.
by IaNerd
Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:44 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Please share your thoughts on these three options.
Replies: 8
Views: 6570

Re: Please share your thoughts on these three options.

Thanks to the posters above for your kind and helpful comments. An old friend of mine has called me Master of the Obvious. Let's check that .... Something occurred to me recently and it might already be a well-known fact. Assume that you have a slide-harp tuned double-diatonic in the sense that the ...
by IaNerd
Mon Feb 10, 2025 9:15 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Please share your thoughts on these three options.
Replies: 8
Views: 6570

Please share your thoughts on these three options.

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by IaNerd
Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:10 pm
Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
Topic: Chromatic for Irish-- there can be only one! (For me at least)
Replies: 11
Views: 62173

Re: Chromatic for Irish-- there can be only one! (For me at least)

harp: As far as I can tell, you have married a D major scale layer in "Classical" tuning with a G major scale layer in "C6" tuning. Both of those tunings are well known, but to use both in this Slide Diatonic arrangement might be new. You can check for this on Pat Missin's websit...
by IaNerd
Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:44 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Spiral, then Dmin/Cmaj
Replies: 9
Views: 16373

Re: Spiral, then Dmin/Cmaj

Here I also amend the colorful table several posts above, by adding the Bb major harp.

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by IaNerd
Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:13 pm
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Spiral, then Dmin/Cmaj
Replies: 9
Views: 16373

Re: Spiral, then Dmin/Cmaj

Last night I attended the aforementioned monthly bluegrass circle. Someone called out a song in G minor, and it occurred to me that this was missing from my five-harp lineup above. And so I add a harp tuned in Bb major (see the green row below). As it happens, this brings out several other useful ke...
by IaNerd
Fri Aug 23, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
Topic: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
Replies: 12
Views: 70234

Re: Bluesy slide-harp tuning

Here: https://brendan-power.com/forum/viewtop ... 4531#p4531
is a very different approach from my January 24, 2020 tuning above.