Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Hi Mustafa, Thanks for your interesting post and request.

The cheapest source of accordion reeds is to buy old accordions from junk shops and remove the reeds. If you want to buy new reeds, including bandoneon reeds and reedplates, you can go here:

https://www.harmonikas.cz/en

I'm not sure if you know Dr. Costas, but recently I developed the Lucky 13 diatonic harmonica: https://www.brendan-power.com/lucky13.php#lucky13 It's available in various tunings, but Richter is the main one. In that configuration it's normal 10-hole Richter plus a duplicated lower octave scale to i...

I received Patrick's kind gift of a Kongsheng Lyra to test out his Inverted Bebop Tuning. It's now retuned to D/G, which only required a few semitone shifts in each octave from Solo C. I'll explore a bit and report back soon

An interesting instrument!

You could test the harmonica application by getting a tube and sealing it to a single harmonica hole with some Blu-Tack or similar. Try differenbt holes on blow and draw to guage the variable effects. I think you'll find the same as I did.

Unfortunately I don't think the panflute device will translate to harmonicas. The difference is that you need to seal the tube to the harmonica to make the reeds sound, which has negative ramifications. Besides the technical difficulty of creating a well sealed sliding mouthpiece adaptor, you would ...

It seems Spiral/Circular tuning variants are capturing the attention of some clever theoreticians in this forum recently.

This is a cool one Edvin! Now I just need to create the good playable DoubleChrom to allow it to be realised. Happy to say I'm making good progress on that, will keep you posted.

It's a bit different, it's this one from his attached file:

Welcome to the forum Dr. Kostas, and thanks for your interesting first post. The tuning that appeals the most to me of the ones you show is the first slider version, with the extra E and B major chords with slider pushed in. You say: "Curiously enough the scale that is produced by sliding the lever ...

Winslow Yerxa is an expert on this style, hopefully he can advise here. I'd be interested too - Winslow?

Yes, Eric Chafer is so talented! Great bass player (as I heard live), and trombone too, apparently! Quite a quirky character, I will try to find out what he's up to these days. Good to see Marcin carrying the torch for Augmented Tuning in fine style. He has several videos using it on YouTube - here ...