Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Paddy Powerbender is a nice tuning! I've been playing around with it during the spring, and I'm coming to really like it. There are several nice positions, and I really prefer the top octave to the Richter one. I never tried a Paddy Powerdraw, but thinking about it I realize that for 4th position mi...

Maybe it's a single harmonica, as described here: https://www.patmissin.com/ffaq/q36.html ?

An instrument seems to be intended for early music education without bottom reeds.

As for the numbers and brackets I have no idea!

Thank you for the appreciation! The main take-home message from my post, I think, isn't necessarily about the cool new tunings. Rather, it's that if we want these properties, we have relatively few options. Our two choices are thus to either work with one of the tunings I present, or look outside th...

When Brendan talks about his PowerChromatic tuning for diatonic half-valved harmonicas, there is a set of properties he often mentions as advantages: * Each octave is the same * Each draw two half steps above its blow note * It has complete major scales through it's range, possibly with bends (Of co...

Thanks for sharing your research! In the third video on guitar effects ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODYpc7hfmJ0 not yet linked here) you don't talk about midi directly, but it's clear the two techniques can complement each other in your looping/one-man-banding. Does the software permit using di...

Nice video! It's inspiring to see people working around the limitations :) Another technical question: What about the slide-in tuning for holes 1 and 2? If they're mainly used for chord playing, I would guess you do something like keeping 1 blow left unaffected by the slider, giving the slide-in tun...

That's a nice video, but we can't talk about modern and innovative hurdy-gurdy playing without a mention of Johannes Geworkian Hellman, who at least for me pushes what I'd had thought the instrument could do quite a bit. As it happens, the duo Symbio, with him and accordion player LarsErik Öjeberget...

There's also another option that might be interesting: Buy the G harp and retune all the C's to C#'s! I have a harp in this tunig myself, and it's very nice! It would ruin it for playing in G, but for playing in D (and also A) you get the best of both worlds. The chords on this tuning are nicer than...

Follow up question: my intention is to uise this to play mainly Quebecois tunes mainly in key of D. I’m assuming key of D is the one to choose, right? Thanks. Ken Not necessarily. Depending on how you feel about bending and what you want in terms of chords, the one in G might be better. Take a look...

.. why on earth anybody would want to do that ;) To play comfortably in keys like Db, Ab ... without constantly keeping the slide pushed. 8-) dear greetings triona Ah, I was unclear! Wanting to change the slider seems perfectly reasonable, I was just questioning doing it back and forth between song...