Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

That natural minor tuning looks nice, it's good to have repeated notes with one on the draw and one on the blow. On my side, after playing around for a while, I switched back to regular G PowerChromatic tuning (without flattening the F#). PC seems more versatile when changing keys and overall still ...

Just a little update. My Lucky 13 arrived (Power Chrom in G), but unfortunately wasn't in a very good state. Perhaps because its box was rattling around un-padded inside a larger box, or maybe a QC issue. It had a few buzzing reeds, rattling valves and some minor tuning issues, so it took a bit of w...

Thanks very much for the insights, it's much appreciated. I'll look into those players and sixths tuning more generally - another nice rabbit hole to go down... I'm gradually starting to appreciate the principles behind the different tunings and I find the inherent compromises very interesting. I gu...

Thanks for your response. It's cool to see I'm not the only one who likes the idea of having more minor scale options in Power Chromatic. You're right about terminology. I didn't mean melodic, I meant Natural Minor, which is much simpler to tune. So just to confirm, for A nm, it'd simply be A-B-C-D-...

Hi all, I'd be curious to know what some more experienced players than me (probably everyone here), think of a minor tuning change to the Power Chromatic Lucky 13: Flattening the fourth draw reed by a semitone. I'm learning harmonica while coming from primarily a piano background, so alternate tunin...