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- Sun Aug 10, 2025 5:22 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: … these three options … -- 12-hole chromatic edition!
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Re: … these three options … -- 12-hole chromatic edition!
Sharooyer - I do not have prototypes of these for playing. And in any case, my medical condition now precludes serious play. From a theoretical standpoint, I am growing fond of OPTION D-12. In the first position, it features expressive draw-bends in the tonics, thirds, fifths and 7ths of the upper t...
- Sun Aug 10, 2025 5:12 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: … these three options … -- 12-hole chromatic edition!
- Replies: 4
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Re: … these three options … -- 12-hole chromatic edition!
In OPTION D-12, the 8- and 12- draw notes can be draw-bent to either a minor or major 7th in the first position. Pretty cool!
- Sun Aug 10, 2025 4:58 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: … these three options … -- 12-hole chromatic edition!
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Re: … these three options … -- 12-hole chromatic edition!
It has occurred to me that if OPTION A-12 (above) were in a flat-slide format, the "missing" B notes would be available as 7- and 10- draw with slide-in.
- Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:27 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: … these three options … -- 12-hole chromatic edition!
- Replies: 4
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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...
- Sat Feb 15, 2025 1:39 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Please share your thoughts on these three options.
- Replies: 8
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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
- Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:44 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Please share your thoughts on these three options.
- Replies: 8
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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 ...
- Mon Feb 10, 2025 9:15 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Please share your thoughts on these three options.
- Replies: 8
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- 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
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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...
- Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:44 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Spiral, then Dmin/Cmaj
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Re: Spiral, then Dmin/Cmaj
Here I also amend the colorful table several posts above, by adding the Bb major harp.
- Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:13 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Spiral, then Dmin/Cmaj
- Replies: 9
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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...