Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

NAME: “FiG Bob CuD” tuning for 10-hole SWITCH harp BASIC CONCEPT: This tuning features seven FAT chordal zones, one or more for each of the following: bVII (in this case, Fmaj), I (Gmaj), bIII (Bbmaj), IV (Cmaj) and V (Dmaj). Each of these seven chordal zones includes the option of playing the majo...

NAME: “CoG CuD” Neck Rack Tuning for 10-hole harp BASIC CONCEPT: This tuning is designed especially for folks who play harp in a neck rack. There are three FAT chordal zones, one each for the I, IV and V chords--and also their b7ths! As far as chord-chugging goes, this tuning should be very forgivi...

NAME: "Neck Rack" tuning for 13-hole harp BASIC CONCEPT: This tuning is designed especially for folks who play harp in a neck rack. There are three FAT chordal zones, one each for the I, IV and V chords--and also their b7ths! As far as chord-chugging goes, this tuning should be very forgiving of im...

NAME: "FiG Bob CuD" tuning for 10-hole harp BASIC CONCEPT: Recently I have felt the need for five particular chords in a lot of blues/pop/rock tunes. From low voicing to high, they are: bVII (in this example, Fmaj), I (Gmaj), bIII (Bbmaj), IV (Cmaj) and V (Dmaj). I also managed to give four of thes...

NAME: Tombo Pocket Bass harp: re-tuning BASIC CONCEPT: The standard Tombo Pocket Bass harmonica has the following notes: F/D -- C/A -- G/E -- D/B -- A/F# . Research suggests that, among popular songs in the Western world, the most-used accidentals are F# and C#. I added a C# to the Tombo. WHEN/HOW:...

NAME: Tombo Pocket Chord harp: re-tuning BASIC CONCEPT: The standard Tombo Pocket Chord harmonica has the following chords: F/Dm -- C/Am -- G7/E7 -- D7/B7 . Research suggests that, among popular songs in the Western world, the following chords are used the most often: C, G, F, D, E, Am, Dm, Em . I ...

Oh, I see now that you meant the Educator 1. I was unaware of that model. It looks like an Airstream trailer.

I own an Educator. It was an education in how to lose $60. Thanks for the reply.

On the Slidemeister forum someone asked if Blue Moon combs are compatible with Brendan's Twin Harp system. I tried two Blue Moon combs on a 10-hole Twin Harp front piece.  One comb is aluminum and the other is brass.  They do NOT fit the Twin Harp, because the walls of their lips are thicker.  One m...

Brendan-- Do you suppose that the hole-spacing of some "slide/chrom" harp is close enough to that of some "non-slide/diatonic" harp that the two could be joined into a Twin system? An example would be a chrom of any chrom-ish tuning wed to a circular-tuned diatonic, for all of its dyads, triads and ...