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- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Seydel 1847 Slipslider Project
- Replies: 12
- Views: 351
Re: Seydel 1847 Slipslider Project
Belated thanks for your video, Dom. It certainly shows that your ingenious assembly works to alter draw reeds pitches in the Seydel 1847. Bertram Becher came up with a different approach he installs in his Big 6 harps, specifically to lower just a couple of notes. He kindly gave me a sample; here's ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:04 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Hypothetical Multi-Reed Chamber Interaction
- Replies: 5
- Views: 41
Re: Hypothetical Multi-Reed Chamber Interaction
Someone here might be able to confirm my suspicious so I don’t have to go ahead and design and print a device that would allow me to test it I don't see why that's needed...? Why not just take the slide assembly off a chromatic, tune and gap the reeds to your desired setup/s, put your mouth over th...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: baroque harmonica and power chord harmonica
- Replies: 3
- Views: 71
Re: baroque harmonica and power chord harmonica
That's correct Triona! Assuming of course that the primary scale (eg. C) in on the top reedplate, and the 4th down secondary scale (F) is on the lower reedplate. If the reedplates are reversed, so should the slider be. This kind of slider could easily be made at the factory with laser cutting - but ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:11 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: baroque harmonica and power chord harmonica
- Replies: 3
- Views: 71
Re: baroque harmonica and power chord harmonica
Thanks for the sound clip and interesting ideas, Triona. That power-chord harp sounds fun! There is a way to make a slider that plays just one hole or both holes. It can be used to play single notes and an octave or, in your case, single notes and a fifth down. A classic 270-type slider has a series...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:11 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Slide Diatonic tuning ideas for blues and rock: "Wilde Slide" Tuning
- Replies: 9
- Views: 220
Re: Slide Diatonic tuning ideas for blues and rock: "Wilde Slide" Tuning
Nice ideas 👍 The C/F combo certainly is good for enabling easy wide interval leaps with the slider. However, I wonder how easy it would be to jump around when you're aiming for a draw bendable enharmonic of a blow reed on the C harp. For example, this one: The 2nd position 4 is now accessible as nic...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:17 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 53672
Re: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
IaNerd wrote: "Another possibility is to have the slider transition some of the blow notes to what--in full Richter tuning--would have been their respective blow bends or overblows." A good idea for those wanting to retain their overblow licks in familiar places on the instrument, but without the st...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 53672
Re: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
RELATED IDEA Here's another idea along the same lines, but without the intention to get better overblows. Instead it gives you extra useful chromatic notes to play outside your home scale. It will work great on half-valved slide harmonicas also, which is my preferred setup. Do exactly the same retun...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 53672
Re: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
I agree, and that's a great thing for progress on the harmonica 😊 In this vein, here's another slide-diatonic tuning idea (actually two related ideas), prompted from a post by Suyash Kumar on the Facebook Harp Repair group. He demonstrated how you could get really strong overblows by lowering the pi...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:44 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: JDR Trochilus: A Look inside and its potential as a customizing platform
- Replies: 14
- Views: 269
Re: JDR Trochilus: A Look inside and its potential as a customizing platform
It is indeed a great concept Dom! You might be interested to check out this 2015 video, showing a bunch of cool possibilities for quad-reedplate twin-comb harmonicas. The bendy version is at the end: https://youtu.be/sJGBnZXRHWg?si=AgLbWN8xwTsPAMsa I tend to think of these collectively as Double Chr...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:48 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Slide Diatonic tuning ideas for blues and rock: "Wilde Slide" Tuning
- Replies: 9
- Views: 220
Re: Slide Diatonic tuning ideas for blues and rock: "Wilde Slide" Tuning
BLU TACK vs SOLDER Gosh, you've certainly gone to town on the Blu Tack Dom! It works... but it's unnecessary to use it on such an extensive retune unless, you want to reverse/change the tuning quickly. If you decide you like the tuning scale and want to keep it, I suggest remove all the Blu Tack and...