Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

I thought we were going to keep our infiltration of the power a secret until we were stronger...

Nice to see though!

And it seems to actually cover all the 20 reeds, both blow and draw! To me that makes a world of difference. I need to consider this for my next harp, since custom Seydel harps seldom seem to be that well tuned.

No worries! (0)1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Richter: c e g c e g c e g c d g b d f a b d f a 0-9: g c e g c e g c e g b d g b d f a b d f Lucky 13: c e g c e g c e g c e g c d g b d g b d f a b d f a With standard numbering of the holes, the 0-9 would look like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0-9: g c e g c e g ...

The picture shows a standard Richter tuning and compares it to the Zero-to-nine tuning. The only difference seems to be that you remove hole 10 and add an extra "hole 0" at the bottom: Richter: c e g c e g c e g c d g b d f a b d f a 0-9: g c e g c e g c e g b d g b d f a b d f The main advantage se...

I don't know. (I never have played one. The only ones I had ever seen were in showcases in museum.) But I guess most probably they are not. But it is not difficult to tune them. Just take a file for higher pitch, solder (or wax, resin ...) for lower pitch, or anything alike. Same procedure as on ha...

Some musical traditions use quarter notes that fall between the steps of the western chromatic scale. One way to handle this would be to use something like Brendan's QuarterTone, but a more accessible way is to simply use bends. On most of my harmonicas most of the holes with a half step between blo...

Very nice! :D And an interesting information about a part of old Swedish folk music that has been nearly forgotten. I presume it must have been one of these harmonicas or a similar one. There had been some more. But these were the most popular ones: https://up.picr.de/35272366sp.jpg https://up.picr...

I found an album with traditional Swedish tunes for harmonica and accordion on Deezer today, called "Munspel & Handklaver" (or Harmonica & Accordion where it's available with English cover) It might be available on Spotify as well, and it seems the individual tracks can be found on Youtube. The labe...

Hey, thanks! I will soon share some data about Phrygian, Mixolydian and Dorian tuning. I skipped Locrian. As for the Dorian tuning: Would this be a harp laid out as a Richter, but with a Dorian scale in first position? This is what is normally referred to when people speak of "natural minor" tuning...

Great experiment! Thanks for sharing!

Lydian scales aren't that common... I suppose this really IS the Alternative harmonica forum with capital A