Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

You could make your own by slicing up and gluing together two lipped combs from 10-hole harps, then putting in the reedplates from a 12 hole solo diatonic. I used to offer these (I called them Stretch Harps), but no longer.

It's not hard - you only have two reeds to retune, the hole 3 blow on both reedplates, and it seems you know how to do that

I think so, but not definite yet - still working out the details. If I attend it would be for the bulk of the festival.

A long time ago I made and sold something called "The Hot Chrometta":
But not now, sorry. It's too much of a niche product to spend the time necessary to create products just for it.

Sorry for the incorrect date. Roland, our China partner who does the posting of the Lucky 13 from Shanghai, has been travelling in the USA during the Chinese New Year holiday period, returning home soon. However we now have the complication of the coronavirus issue, with authorities in China orderin...

Yes, the possibilities are endless if you think of a slide harmonica not as a Chromatic but as essentially a Slide-Diatonic. The slide notes can be configured in so many useful ways to add cool extra functionality, regardless of the base Slide-Out tuning. You show some good options with the hexatoni...

Rick Epping has been playing Irish music to a high level on the standard Easy Third Tuning for many decades. He uses tongue blocking with chord vamping and octaves to get a very full sound. Joel Andersson has adopted Rick's style and extended it further with tongue-switching. It's great for their st...

Good question. If you listen closely to accomplished Irish trad players, you'll hear they vary the melody every time around. Some do it more or take it further than others. These variations are not full-blown improvisation because the underlying melody is still the basis of the playing, but they do ...

Thanks for chiming in Ron. A few queries if you don't mind:

What inspired your Scottish Tuning?
When did you devise it?
Have you used it already, or will this be the first time it actually made in a harmonica?

Bp

I agree Edvin, they are exactly the same tuning starting in a different place in the scale. You can go this with other tunings that repeat as you say, like Solo, PowerChromatic etc. It's interesting that Ron Taylor developed his scale independently of Patrick, and it came to me a short time after In...