Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

EdvinW -- You are absolutely correct about it being identical to Newton Fourkey. I feel silly for not recognizing that myself. On the other hand, I feel pretty good about arriving at something which is known to have value. I agree with the rest of your insightful analysis. Thank you. I have never o...

Continuing with the ideas posted just above .... If we wish to construct a five-hole-per-octave melodic repeating module, and we are not matching it to a left-end chordal area, and we want to play as many common scales as possible, and we don't want to use slides or bending, then let's consider the...

Let's take another look at the posting (above) of Sun Jan 06, 2019 3:22 pm . In particular, let's consider the melodic upper end , i.e. C - D# - F - G - A# / D - E - F# - A - B . When we consider this as a repeating module, we can play the following scales without any bends: Major scales: C, G Minor...

Robert Temple:

I am intrigued by your thoughts--thank you. Alas, I lack the knowledge and experience needed to either agree or disagree that what you propose is mechanically viable. I hope that the real experts will weigh in on your ideas.

I’ve been pondering how to make a harp which is: 1. primarily Ionian (including all the naturals, and only the naturals, in the blow and draw layers), and 2. fully chromatic (just in case any accidentals are needed), and 3. slideless (to keep costs low and reliability high). So far, I think we’re de...

Kniri Knaus asked me to prepare diagrams which compare his own Bluesy tuning with Seydel's Orchestra S tuning. https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=488 https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=489 https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/download/f...

Largely inspired by Seydel's Big Six harps, I have devised many tunings with that six-hole format in mind. Today I saw Kongsheng 's announcement of a new seven-hole model. That got me to wondering: What if Super-Circular were extended to seven holes? What new chords--and chord progressions--could re...

I now see that the table of chord progressions in the post just above this one includes a number of redundancies. In this post I offer a much-improved table. Chord progressions which can be achieved with the tuning of Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:49 pm (above) and without any of the "slide-in layer" chords o...

In the post of Tue Jan 22, 2019 2:08 pm (above), my goal was squeeze “a few more chords” out of the first six channels. And so I did, relying on intuition to help me make the changes shown in that post. But now I revisit that goal, this time with more nuance. Now I wish to derive from the first six ...