Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

I'm not sure i understand the question:

You need every note except for B?

Looks like PowerBender in the key of Eb would work. G Minor lays out very nicely on it, with draw bends on all the chromatic passing tones (other than B)

Sorry, not the Trochilus: it's a 10-hole diatonic That's too bad, trochilus power tunings would open up a ton of cool expressive capabilites I would think. I actually think a chromatic tuning based on the holes 4-8 of PowerBender repeating would be fantastic. It looked like in your Freebird Solo vi...

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 ni...

We've just received a new shipment of nice-playing PowerBender harps made by JDR in common keys, which will be available soon. Are these going to be a thing? Trochilus power tunings? If so that's amazing! It will save me a ton of work from having to retune these from richter all the time to my pref...

Coincidental Timing with Brendan's Midi Pitch Bender, I've been working on some handheld experiments for changing the pitch of amped harmonica: Here's a quick demo video: https://youtu.be/oQarDqO116U The most straightforward way to do this is to use something like a digitech whammy or other pitch sh...

I really like option A. So much so I may have to try it out sometime!

It seems very versatile, especially in 1st and 12th positions.

These sound great! I especially like the "Stairway to heaven " one you just did. I had started learning a couple solos on my retuned Trochilus tuning before I went and messed up my rib and threw my projects on hold for yhe time being. I had found, as you predicted, a couple things I want t...

Hey. I suffered a rib injury in August which unfortunately has not been healing properly and has kept me away from all sorts of activities, including harmonica. Three months later I still have no idea when I'll be able to take up music practice and physical activity again. My motivation to work on p...

I don't know why it is, but I've found that valve bends on the smaller reeds (holes 6 and up) always sound nice and strong compared to holes 1 through 4.

I made a version for the Seydel 1847, which I showed off here: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4324#p4324 In theory it does work well, you can overblow / overdraw every reed, single reed bend every reed, and do your normal dual reed bends as well. In practice, because the reed ch...