Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

A "switch harp / double chromatic" for these might be a lot of fun.

What's better than two bendable diatonic harps stacked on top of one another? Four bendable diatonic harps stacked on top of one another!

I think we might start seeing a lot more of these cool slide diatonic tunings now that the average-joe diatonic player is starting to warm up to these 10 hole chromatics.

And also here: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=876 It looks like we landed on nearly the same slide tuning for the first 5 holes of richter :-) The cool thing with these newer cheaper, smaller chromatics is that these tunings now become a lot more practical. To Brendan's poi...

While retuning my Trochilus in A to Wilde Tuning, I thought, rather than creating a typical chromatic, maybe I should create a "slide diatonic" tuning where the slide-in functions pretty much exclusively as auxiliary enharmonics and bends that would not normally be present on a typical diatonic. For...

Demo video (from my basement)
https://youtu.be/ABmjrQxieNI?si=GHeWadC-F4kqJPXJ
Standard Richter tuning in G: Slipslider to play in A minor in the middle and upper octaves.

Fully working magnetic "chromaslide" prototype video https://youtu.be/B2W5BN9jHKw In this video I give a quick demo of using the slider to switch immediately to a minor tuned harp. Then I open the thing up and show how it works. I'm still making more magnets. This weekend I'll have it working where...

Brendan wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:55 am

What's the hole spacing on the Trochilus

9.65 for the Trochilus as well.

BTW: Is this part called "slide" or "slider" in correct English? I have seen both of them. I don't know either! I think they are both acceptable. You are right, the reeds are welded :-( I did not catch that. Comparing the Trochilus reedplate with the EastTop T10-40 reedplate, you could probably tak...

n many holes in many tunings it makes more sense raising the draw reed than lowering it. Changing Richter to Country, for instance! With a small magnet glued to the reed with some vibration resistant epoxy this is probably immediately achievable. On the draw side I could only raise it a semitone be...

Customizing Opportunities Retuning Obviously, retuning it to various tunings is a huge opportunity here. The first thing I can think is that a Diminished Tuned version would be a sweet way to have a pocket chromatic with the same octave range as a saxophone. If you want more range, go with an Augme...