Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Interesting ideas here: http://www.slidemeister.com/forums/inde ... 8#msg14688

The S-50's layout seems more intuitive to me. I think I will try one.

It's bigger than I thought ....

https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/dow ... iew&id=505

Here is the same tuning as the one just above, but transposed to C major instead of F major.

https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/dow ... iew&id=523

ADDENDUM TO THE POST OF Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:36 pm (above): Since the non-bent notes in that tuning are best suited for melodic play in the key of F major, I will re-cast the diagram in terms of the Fmaj chord being the I chord : https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=522

To valve or not to valve ....

A good question. One that I am not qualified to answer.

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...