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- Sun Apr 24, 2022 7:16 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: JOKER "superchromatic"
- Replies: 14
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Re: JOKER "superchromatic"
Hello Philippe, and welcome to the forum! Your recordings sound great :D If I understand your tuning correctly, each blow note is one full step above the note to the blow note to the right, and draw notes are one half step above the draw in the same hole. Is that correct? If so, it's an interesting ...
- Fri Apr 22, 2022 9:59 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: How to get Extra, Deeper Bends on Harmonica
- Replies: 14
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Re: How to get Extra, Deeper Bends on Harmonica
Thanks for the update! I'm much looking forward to see what you come up with 

- Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:47 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Making the sound of a plucked reed while playing? A new technique! (?)
- Replies: 0
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Making the sound of a plucked reed while playing? A new technique! (?)
I was playing around just now, and found something quite peculiar! Check this out: https://cloud.fripost.org/s/pdM7JFtAKKZw4xZ I play a completely normal Seydel Session Steel G (paddy) PowerBender, no magnets or anything. (The only somewhat unusual part of the setup is a curled up sock inside my cup...
- Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:45 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: How to get Extra, Deeper Bends on Harmonica
- Replies: 14
- Views: 22488
Re: How to get Extra, Deeper Bends on Harmonica
That's a clever idea! Could you comment on any advantages of the slide-bend-enabler over the TurboSlide? The ones I could see are that it's easier to build yourself from a stock harp and the wider range of the 12 holes. The downside could be that the magnet blow bends are not smooth and the larger s...
- Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:51 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: The new, updated DM48X is here!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 31484
Re: The new, updated DM48X is here!
Thanks, Brendan!
That ribbon controller does seem useful! As I understand it it's quite different from your miniMIDI-JOYstick, is this correct? Could you say something about how the two compare?
- Sun Jan 09, 2022 11:45 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Introducing the Wedin Chromatic – folk music ornaments in many keys
- Replies: 34
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Re: Introducing the Wedin Chromatic – folk music ornaments in many keys
I finally got around to posting on Slidemeister: https://forums.slidemeister.com/index.php?topic=20627
I used the same sound clips but altered the presentation somewhat.
- Sun Jan 02, 2022 12:44 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: The new, updated DM48X is here!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 31484
The new, updated DM48X is here!
I just saw an e-mail from Lekholm Instruments, announcing their introducing the successor to the DM48: DM48X ! The most apparent new features are that the new model has a ribbon controller on top, which could be used as a pitch-bender or to control the sound in other ways, and that it can be operate...
- Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:13 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: MODULAR-REED HARMONICA - Released!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 69421
Re: MODULAR-REED HARMONICA - Released!
Are there any plans to make a Modular-Reed twin harmonica system?
There isn't much competition when it comes to chromatics in non-standard tunings, and it looks like it might turn out to be cheaper than Seydel's most basic custom-tuned chrom. Just saying...
There isn't much competition when it comes to chromatics in non-standard tunings, and it looks like it might turn out to be cheaper than Seydel's most basic custom-tuned chrom. Just saying...
- Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:13 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: MODULAR-REED HARMONICA - Released!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 69421
Re: MODULAR-REED HARMONICA - Released!
Here is an example what a bent chord could sound like by the way! (Complete with comments from my producer
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I start playing the note pair GD, and then repeatedly bend the D down to a C. It's thus an example of a fifth being compressed to a fourth.

I start playing the note pair GD, and then repeatedly bend the D down to a C. It's thus an example of a fifth being compressed to a fourth.
- Fri Dec 03, 2021 1:52 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: MODULAR-REED HARMONICA - Released!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 69421
Re: MODULAR-REED HARMONICA - Released!
Thank you Brendan! I've been doing some more experimenting with my set lately, so new reeds could definitely be useful. :D I woke up early this morning and, half awake, I came to the realisation: If someone would like to know what a tremolo blues harmonica sounds like, the Modular Reed system is is ...