Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

I wonder if this 12-hole tuning is feasible in a properly valved slide "chromatic" harp such as the DeLuxe or DeLuxe Steele. My comprehension of valving is poor, so I invite your thoughts.

At this time (December 2017) Brendan does not offer a non-reentrant 12-hole Switch Harp system. As a get-by, the essence of this tuning could be had with currently available materials by the elimination of channels 4 and 5. I haven't yet tried to load that 10-hole tuning into Seydel's configurator. ...

NAME: "Dirt Simple" blues tuning for 12-hole harp Switch Harp BASIC CONCEPT: The chords are in chambers 1-4. Then there is a blank/plugged hole. Then the remaining chambers are the scales for the I, IV and V scales. WHEN/HOW: December of 2017. I have not yet had one made. LAYOUT/DETAILS: 2017-12-26...

An arguably better "Backpack" for Richter tuning can be seen in the topic entitled "PowerBender/PowerDraw's "Backpack" ... for Twin-Harp system".

An arguably better "Backpack" for Richter tuning can be seen in the topic entitled "PowerBender/PowerDraw's "Backpack" ... for Twin-Harp system".

A big part of the "Richter magic" lies in the ability to chug-chug away on those lovely I and IV cords in the low octave, i.e. chambers 1-4. No wonder that this critical part of the original Richter tuning is retained in both PowerDraw and PowerBender. Please note that in this "Backpack" tuning, tho...

I have developed ten- and twelve-hole extensions of this tuning. You can find them under their "Mullet" titles on this forum.

NAME: "Super-Duper Chord Buddy" ... for Brendan Power Quad-Six system BASIC CONCEPT: In my original Chord Buddy, I fit four useful chords (a I, IV, V and vi) into the diminutive Seydel Big Six. I later expanded upon that idea using a Twin Big Six comb (i.e. two Big Sixes, side-by-side). That led to...

An update: I've had two of these for a while now--one tuned to Cmaj and the other to Gmaj (i.e. lower). I like playing the lower one better. PowerChrom-Plus has become my favorite "go-to" tuning. If I had a magic wand, this tuning would be offered by Seydel, Suzuki, Lee Oskar and Hohner as well as ...

For reference, here are the Brendan Power tunings referred to above: