Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

In this discussion: https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=155&p=874&hilit=Mullet#p874 I proposed a 12-hole tuning which had many useful features but would have been exceedingly difficult to tune and to play. 2017-11-20.png In this discussion I will recast this general i...

Like the title says. Please state the +/- semitones you are comfortable with altering on reeds -- this might or might not involve reed replacement. No blue-tac or other non-permanent alterations. Also please indicate the country you are in.

A correction to the first sentence of a paragraph above:

Pushing the slider in drops each of the slide-out draw notes of holes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10 from what would have been their respective draw-bends to the next lower blues scale note.

You might consider a Lee Oskar tuning called "Seventh Son". In that tuning, the 1 blow is lowered by two semitones while the 1 draw is raised by three semitones. These changes provide dominant sevenths for (in second position) the I chord and the IV chord. This also affords some super-deep...

I understand and applaud your approach. I was musing on something similar here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=667&p=3922#p2906

And also here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=876

I propose a trio of re-tunings for the Lucky 13 in its Double Paddy Richter variant.

Historically I should note the following from Pat Missin’s catalog:
Now for the re-tunings:

I want to point out that all of the above discussions omit the possibilities of overblows. I invite your thoughts on that but I am not an overblower and never will be. To each his own.

Four posts above this one, I considered the possibilities of minor blues scales (with b3, b5 and b7). Here is the rundown for major blues scales (with b3 only). 1st position: yes, starting at 1 blow 2nd position: yes, starting at 4 draw, but with two tricky draw-bends 3rd position: yes, starting at ...