Welcome to the forum! I sent you a private message on how to make your tuning align nicer, it should be visible if you log in

Welcome to the forum! I sent you a private message on how to make your tuning align nicer, it should be visible if you log in
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BLOW G A C E G A C E G A C E G
HOLE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
DRAW A B D F# A B D F# A B D F# A
Nobody seems to see my little tuning variation - isn't this useful for that kind of music? I use it for harmonic minor with 3 blow as root note in hole 1 e.g. in a harmonic minor.Gerhard62 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:33 pmHow about a tuning like that:Full chromatic only with draw bends and the scale without bends?Code: Select all
C Eb G Bb C Eb G Bb C Eb 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 D F# A C D F# A C D G
Or use a G Harmonic Minor harmonica e.g. from Lee Oskar. There are the whole scale inside and it is much cheaper as a customized tuning.
Or you wait for the new Diminished Lucky 13 from Brendan. But then you must use draw bends to play this scale.
Greetings, Gerhard
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C E G Bb C E G Bb
D F# A C D F# A C
Thanks, Brendan, and yes your tuning is nice, too. I use Bb-C not because I don't want to bend but because I can so reach the Cb and the tuning is so completely chromatic.Brendan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 7:22 pmSorry Gerhard! I assume this is a tuning that repeats every 5th hole (like Diminished-tuned, Solo, PowerChromatic etc)? That is indeed a nice tuning variation which I don't think we've seen before. Edvin has the sharpest eye for that kind of thing.
It's the same as the one I used for Sweet Bulgarity, except for hole 4. I have A-B there, you have Bb-C. Both will work well for Hijaz starting on the D draw note, but yours requires no bends. For the player who can't bend, or prefers not to, it is better![]()
My tuning in this thread is just a variation because it has the root note for the hijaz scale. I found the basic tuning in one of your interesting threads viewtopic.php?f=9&t=249&start=10#p1702EdvinW wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:10 pmGerhard: Like Brendan says, your tuning is very similar to his, and it's hard to say one is objectively better than the other. It looks niceI've never seen it before, but it makes sense as a variation of another tuning which I talked about in another post, which I call PowerBender's Sharp Sister. It looks like this
C E G Bb C E G Bb
D F# A C D F# A C
Like the PowerBender, every hole has a two note difference between blow and draw and all notes but one are available with bends. If we would call Brendan's tuning a Balkan PowerChromatic yours could be a Balkan Sharp Sister, as both variations fill the missing note by lowering the above. Do you have some name for it?
Just like the standard PowerChromatic, the unaltered Sharp Sister can be used to play the Hijaz scale in the 7th position way. This is also true for a tuning called Inverted Bebop which I think Partick (IaNerd here on the forum) uses (or used?).