Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

I offer this discussion even though I am not sure if the idea is useful. This Forum’s many experienced and insightful members might see possibilities that I am missing. I feel compelled to share this idea because I am surprised and intrigued by what I found when I applied my Chromatic with Offset To...

I will be in Memphis the first week of October, 2022. If anyone there would like to discuss or try out this tuning, PM me.

Winslow, I understand your point. In fact, Brendan and I and others had a detailed discussion on this very topic about a year ago. I have seen many tuning diagrams since I started learning such things fifty years ago. Most of the diagrams that I have seen, including the Configurator at Seydel, are s...

In this earlier discussion https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=829&sid=20321f3b7f8928c49795f0ca7a26a88b#p3642 I introduced Double Lead Tone (DLT) in association with a Spiral tuning. Then here https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=874#p3904 I introdu...

I will point out--before anyone else does--that all of the tunings in the posts above lack some of the enharmonics that we would have in more typical chromatic tunings. And that these enharmonics can be useful. True. I acknowledge this as a fair point.

Below we have the same as the two tunings in the post just above, except shifted to the right by one hole in order to get at least one full octave of easy blow-draw play in all church modes--in holes 1 through 7. In holes 4 through 12 we have the repeating breath pattern for two full octaves--afford...

Here https://www.brendan-power.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=829&sid=18df62d8221d69a2aa76ac2896de92cb#p3642 I explored the combination of Spiral tuning with something that I termed “Double Lead Tone” or DLT. In DLT, there is a periodic “resetting” of the blow/draw pattern which occurs by rep...

Strictly Alternating Church-modes = SAtChMo?

Seydel 's Configurator can handle Spiral (they say Circular) tunings with low ends as low as C3 (130.81 Hz). By the way, my inner scientist/mathematician would say that in context of harmonica tunings, Spiral is not an appropriate term. In my opinion, Circular is a better term and Helical is perhap...

So why might these tunings matter? Or, to put it a better way, to whom might these tunings matter? I confess – as I did in another discussion – that I am a “living room” or “front porch” player. I can count my lifetime stage events on two hands. So for me the key in which I play a song is usually ir...