Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

dominico, hope your rib is getting better!

I've sent you a PM, definitely happy to see if can can collaborate on the idea!

Let me revive this thread a bit. I just been played more harmonica again and focusing on irish music, and for different tunes i was using three different tuning on set of the tunes - Paddy Richter, Melody Maker and Country tuning. To do that i really needed 3 different harmonicas while, again, their...

Recently I was finding myself constantly jumping between half valved harmonicas and standard non-valved. I really like using overblows 4,5,6 for additional chromaticism, but at the same time I like the sound of blow valved notes. So I was thinking if there's a way of having it both ways. Yes I know ...

Just to continue on this topic - here’s one idea which can actually work

https://www.facebook.com/share/kBMTauNJ ... tid=WC7FNe

but i need some reliable mechanism to put the shim under the reed and back. Need to experiment on that.

Brendan, this is similar to Seydel "All Minor" harp as far as I understand. This is something I'd consider to switch between Paddy Richter / Richter / Country tuning, if only I 1. played Seydels and not Suzuki with phosphor bronze reeds 2. didn't have nice shiny promaster gold coverplates ...

Interesting idea Dom, i’m waiting for my Game Changer to arrive and i planned to do a similar thing i want to retune some of the slide notes to “Eddie Clarke” semitone down ones, but for others i might do something different to give me missing notes or enharmonic notes instead. Will post when i have...

Interesting observation Brendan! From what I see Trochilus / Bushman Game Changer made quite a hype in harmonica circles (or maybe my harmonica circles are very narrow? :) ) So maybe (hopefully) we'll see Suzuki / Hohner / Seydel improving on this design and coming up with their model. They could ma...

Thank you for the review Dominico! It’s a pity the slider is not reversible, i was thinking of getting one for irish music. Retuning 20 reeds up a tone is not very fun. Does it have the key stamped somewhere on it? I wonder if some customizers could come up with more conventionslly rectangle shape o...

... Regarding the "magnets as an even quicker alternative to blu tak" its only been one day but I've carried the thing around in my pocket and played a bunch and the magnets haven't budged. I'll keep carrying it and see what happens. I still wonder if that's the good way to go. I have my ...

Interesting insights Dom and Brendan, I'd say keep them coming! Maybe just to share another view on alternative tunings - I play mostly irish trad / old time on harmonica and occasionally blues, and while I see that some alternative tunings open up some possibilities, I guess the biggest stopper for...