Brendan Power & Alternative Harmonicas Forum

EdvinW wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 16, 2020 7:15 pm

... this tuning seems almost ideal for Eurovision

... If not most of the contestants would prefer electronical sound generation (?)


dear greetings
triona

Why it must be recessed (= lipped) combs? With standard combs of wood there would be Seydel Solist Pro 12. And if it could be 13 holes as well, there would be Brendan's Lucky 13 with standard plastic combs. And these are even available readily tuned as Power Chromatics as well. dear greetings triona

Those seem to be quite rare anyway. Does Brendan remenber, how many of them are out at all? I was intrigued by the idea at first sight too. But then I started to think about the costs and the additional work effort to finish the setup, and then I compared it to the likelihood how often I would play ...

... to keep the slide pushed for most of a tune. Compared to a spring, a magnet should exert a smaller force when in the out position, but a stronger force when pressed all the way in, and while this should ease fast slider action I worry that keeping the slide pressed will be hard. ... I think you...

I am still impressed with mine after quite a bit of playing time on my PowerChro G, D and C (retuned). I will be looking to get Gnarly to tune one down to A for me soon. I would get a full set of keys, if they were available. I guess the fact that these are playable chromatically makes most people ...

No harmonica involved, but ingenious anyway:
https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q


dear greetings
triona

Aha, looks interesting. And has a little bit from this tuning of one of my Seydel Samplers, at least considering the function: https://up.picr.de/35270179sp.jpg I got the idea from Donald Black, who comes from Scotland indeed. He uses the tuning on a turn around tremolo from Hohner ("Highlander", a ...

For tuneable (mouth-)harmonicas with magnetic technik look here: https://www.seydel1847.de/epages/Seydel1847.sf/?Locale=de_DE&ViewObjectID=44220152 https://www.seydel1847.de/epages/Seydel1847.sf/en_US/?ViewObjectID=44220152&Currency=EUR https://www.turboharp.com/tunemaster https://www.brendan-power....

Do you mean this one?

Seydel calls it "The Irish".
https://www.seydel1847.de/epages/Seydel ... rrency=EUR




dear greetings
triona

For Cajun I would consider G as the first choice. G is the key by which the typical cajun accordion is tuned with. If you want to play mainly in second position, you are right with the C harp. But I prefer Brendan's Slide Diatonic by Hering in G. It is perfect to play the voice of the cajun accordio...