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- Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:30 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: "High Octane" blues tuning for 12-hole harp
- Replies: 7
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"High Octane" blues tuning for 12-hole harp
NAME: "HIgh Octane" blues tuning for 12-hole harp BASIC CONCEPT: In recent months I have devised a number of tunings which feature “the” minor hexatonic blues scale. A few days ago it dawned on me that, in doing so, my thinking was restricted to the I chord (my default for this is Gmaj) of a I-IV-V...
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:53 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Blues tuning **with 7ths** for 10-hole harp
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17799
Re: Blues tuning **with 7ths** for 10-hole harp
Four posts above this one, I explained that the overall tuning of this Subject could be a reentrant tuning . By adding one more channel/hole to the left and also one more to the right side of the harp (for a total of 12 channels and 24 reeds), it's easy see this concept adapted to fit Brendan's Seyd...
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:45 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Blues tuning for 12-hole "diatonic" harp
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6881
Re: Blues tuning for 12-hole "diatonic" harp
To elaborate on the post just above: The overall tuning in this Subject can be accomplished using two Seydel Big Sixes mounted on Brendan's Seydel Twin Big-Six Comb (at http://www.brendan-power.com/combs-diatonic.php ). This would permit the left octave and right octave to be in the same register, i...
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:37 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: "Easy Backup" tuning for six-hole harp
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5788
Re: "Easy Backup" tuning for six-hole harp
The tuning in this Subject can be either of the two Seydel Big Sixes mounted on Brendan's Seydel Twin Big-Six Comb (at http://www.brendan-power.com/combs-diatonic.php ).
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:35 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Four-chords tuning for six-hole harp
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8191
Re: Four-chords tuning for six-hole harp
The tuning in this Subject can be either of two Seydel Big Sixes mounted on Brendan's Seydel Twin Big-Six Comb (at http://www.brendan-power.com/combs-diatonic.php ).
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:33 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Blues tuning **with 7ths** for 12-hole harp
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6704
Re: Blues tuning **with 7ths** for 12-hole harp
The overall tuning in this Subject can be accomplished using two Seydel Big Sixes mounted on Brendan's Seydel Twin Big-Six Comb (at http://www.brendan-power.com/combs-diatonic.php ).
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:31 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Sixteen-chord tuning for 12-hole harp (or pair of six-holers)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8572
Re: Sixteen-chord tuning for 12-hole harp (or pair of six-holers)
The overall tuning in this Subject can be accomplished using two Seydel Big Sixes mounted on Brendan's Seydel Twin Big-Six Comb (at http://www.brendan-power.com/combs-diatonic.php ).
- Fri Oct 13, 2017 3:52 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Diagrams of well-known tunings
- Replies: 23
- Views: 40666
"Canned Heat" tuning, cross harp key of E
‘On the Road Again’ was recorded by the American blues-rock group Canned Heat in 1967. The distinctive harmonica solo first played by Alan ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson utilizes a special tuning adjustment. Played on a harp in key A in cross/2nd position E, adjustments to draw reed 6 are made by raising the pi...
- Fri Oct 13, 2017 3:45 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Diagrams of well-known tunings
- Replies: 23
- Views: 40666
"Canned Heat" tuning, cross harp key of G
‘On the Road Again’ was recorded by the American blues-rock group Canned Heat in 1967. The distinctive harmonica solo first played by Alan ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson utilizes a special tuning adjustment. Played on a harp in key A in cross/2nd position E, adjustments to draw reed 6 are made by raising the pi...
- Mon Oct 09, 2017 8:55 pm
- Forum: Interesting Alternative Harmonica Ideas
- Topic: Placement of "extra" notes?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6867
Placement of "extra" notes?
If you had a non-Richter tuning that results in a whole number of octaves plus one or two extra notes, would you put the bonus notes on the low end or the high end? Why?