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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:11 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Slide Diatonic tuning ideas for blues and rock: "Wilde Slide" Tuning
- Replies: 9
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Re: Slide Diatonic tuning ideas for blues and rock: "Wilde Slide" Tuning
Nice ideas 👍 The C/F combo certainly is good for enabling easy wide interval leaps with the slider. However, I wonder how easy it would be to jump around when you're aiming for a draw bendable enharmonic of a blow reed on the C harp. For example, this one: The 2nd position 4 is now accessible as nic...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:17 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
- Replies: 11
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Re: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
IaNerd wrote: "Another possibility is to have the slider transition some of the blow notes to what--in full Richter tuning--would have been their respective blow bends or overblows." A good idea for those wanting to retain their overblow licks in familiar places on the instrument, but without the st...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 55346
Re: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
RELATED IDEA Here's another idea along the same lines, but without the intention to get better overblows. Instead it gives you extra useful chromatic notes to play outside your home scale. It will work great on half-valved slide harmonicas also, which is my preferred setup. Do exactly the same retun...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
- Replies: 11
- Views: 55346
Re: Bluesy slide-harp tuning
I agree, and that's a great thing for progress on the harmonica 😊 In this vein, here's another slide-diatonic tuning idea (actually two related ideas), prompted from a post by Suyash Kumar on the Facebook Harp Repair group. He demonstrated how you could get really strong overblows by lowering the pi...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:44 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: JDR Trochilus: A Look inside and its potential as a customizing platform
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2589
Re: JDR Trochilus: A Look inside and its potential as a customizing platform
It is indeed a great concept Dom! You might be interested to check out this 2015 video, showing a bunch of cool possibilities for quad-reedplate twin-comb harmonicas. The bendy version is at the end: https://youtu.be/sJGBnZXRHWg?si=AgLbWN8xwTsPAMsa I tend to think of these collectively as Double Chr...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:48 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Slide Diatonic tuning ideas for blues and rock: "Wilde Slide" Tuning
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1742
Re: Slide Diatonic tuning ideas for blues and rock: "Wilde Slide" Tuning
BLU TACK vs SOLDER Gosh, you've certainly gone to town on the Blu Tack Dom! It works... but it's unnecessary to use it on such an extensive retune unless, you want to reverse/change the tuning quickly. If you decide you like the tuning scale and want to keep it, I suggest remove all the Blu Tack and...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:07 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Slide Diatonic tuning ideas for blues and rock: "Wilde Slide" Tuning
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1742
Re: Slide Diatonic tuning ideas for blues and rock: "Wilde Slide" Tuning
Good logic for your tuning scheme, Dominick. It makes perfect sense to me - although I won't be surprised if you tweak it a bit after you start playing the tuning regularly. The Slide-Diatonic concept can be used in many different ways to give extra notes/bends and alternative bend-enharmonics for t...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Brendan's Custom Harmonicas, Tunings, etc
- Topic: Lucky 13 Diminished
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1677
Re: Lucky 13 Diminished
A couple of years ago Easttop took over selling the Lucky 13. They make the decisions on which tunings to continue with or not, so you need to contact them about it. Contact details are on their website: https://easttop-harmonica.com/ If Easttop do discontinue the Lucky 13 in Diminished Tuning, othe...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: JDR Trochilus: A Look inside and its potential as a customizing platform
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2589
Re: JDR Trochilus: A Look inside and its potential as a customizing platform
Thanks! That could be useful.
I've ordered one myself, so I won't need to keep asking about small details
I've ordered one myself, so I won't need to keep asking about small details
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:55 am
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: JDR Trochilus: A Look inside and its potential as a customizing platform
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2589
Re: JDR Trochilus: A Look inside and its potential as a customizing platform
What's the hole spacing on the Trochilus, Dom? I mean between mouth or slider holes. On most chromatics it's roughly 9.35mm, but on the Easttop 1040 it's 9.65mm. Incidentally, it's quite easy to swap around welded reeds. I did a YouTube video on it about 15 years ago, and there have been others sinc...