Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

Looking at this again: is this really different from the Antaki effect? It seems the magnet is positioned to affect the blow reed. I'd love to see what note he would get if he were to just blow normally. With a Turboslide, the blow reed is magnetically tuned down, so even though the draw bends get l...

Thanks for the links! For blues and similar styles in second position, could this effect be especially useful on hole 5? The 6B tonic is normally a boring blow note, but this way it could be played as an overblow instead. I know this is to already possible on a well set up normal harp, but if the ma...

André: That's really cool, both the harmonica and the playing! Thanks for sharing! Does the slider raise every note 1 half step? Especially in the bottom octave there seems to be many interesting ways to tune the slide-in notes, depending on whether you prioritise more chords or more clean notes. Br...

Long time no see, nice to have you back! :) Your inverted Dorian (except for the chord-y bottom octave) seems to coincide with what is often called "Classical tuning" for chromatics. It does make more sense than Solo in many ways.. It's discussed in "a lot" (to be an alternate harmonica tuning..) of...

I was taking a chromatic apart just now to check on a buzzing in-side valve; I must have damaged it somehow last time I opened it, and it wouldn't lie flat. I couldn't bend it back, and since it was a fairly high note, a hole 10 A, I thought to try and just remove it to see how it would play. Valves...

Welcome to the forum! I don't know if it's an established tuning, though I actually do have one harp tuned like that. I use it mainly for playing Am and Dm tunes. Though they are not the most common Irish keys they do show up now and then, and they are common in some other genera. I've not tried to ...

I sent an email to the enquiries address the other day, haven't heard back: I'm interested in a Lucky 13 harp in diminished tuning with gasket valve system. I don't see diminished as an option for tuning for the gasket system. How do I get that? Brendan said in the forum that there is a gasket with...

Regarding "phrase map" code (by Edvin) discussed above: Is there a thread or website where we can learn more about this? They are generated from code in a language called TikZ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikZ ) which I normally use to make figures for math publications. It is used within anothe...

The only thing I would do differently to put the blow note on the bottom. Since these are graphic representations of pitch, it seems to me more logical to have the lowest note in each hole at the bottom of the grid, with the pitch rising from blow through to drawbend and draw (see attached for an e...

I was testing it out in Hijaz scale today. As with any other scale, there are only three patterns required to play Hijaz in all 12 keys! I'll lay them out here shortly, in the form of Phrase Maps. I had a go at making some Phrase Maps as well, and I think they turned out rather pretty :) https://cl...