Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

I have a Facebook group for the SSCH.

These 13 hole harmonicas are all lower — the added notes are lower.
So the first octave starts with C3.
Glad these are available now, I used to have to retune them!

I had converted a 64 to half valved Power Chromatic, but I'm fickle--it's now a Dimi.

Boy, I just use a tuner app on my iOS device and my ears.
Numbers are great, but this is more than I have time for.
Have fun tho!

I think Power Chromatic would be nice on the L13.
Not ready to do one yet tho . . .

I tuned one to Major Cross--
https://youtu.be/u_r8Draals4
But you knew that!

This is a tuning I came up with, Richter on top and circular on the bottom.
I call it New World since that's where I am from
Originally developed on a 365, it would fit nicely on a Lucky 13!

I have retuned the L13 to solo a couple of times, using a C and retuning to start on E3. Just ordered an A to tune to harmonic minor in A, customer wants the first 10 holes to be "like normal" LOL, that's going to be easy (!), only a dozen reeds to lower. The reed material is very hard, ce...

Brendan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2017 10:39 pm Suzuki had a very fertile period of development and innovation for about 5 years <snip> Just the low Manjis since

Don't forget the SSCH, that's an innovation!

Nothing new from Suzuki lately, at least that I know of from working in the warehouse from which products imported into the US are shipped to vendors. I am, of course, the repair tech, but not much work, for whatever reason. I'd really like to see some superlow Manji harps, they only go down to C3 a...