Brendan wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 9:51 am
"Regular Breath Tuning" was a name I gave to my first ever alternate tuning back around 1980 ...
But now people are using the term with a generic, wider meaning. 'Regular Breath' now refers to any tuning where the breathing pattern is the same throughout the whole harp. In practice, that means the draw note is always higher than the blow, in every hole.
Aha, that means that solo tuning is not included, and neither any of the Richter-based tunings which change breath direction at about hole 7 or anywhere else, including Paddy, Easy 3rd, Country, MM, Natural and Harmonic Minor, Dorian, and many others. On the other hand Regular Breath would include Power Draw, Power Bender, Power Chromatic, Diminished and maybe some others as well.
But if there is e.g. a blow B and a draw C or a blow E and a draw F in the same hole or any other semitone step, there were no bend possible in this hole neither? I do not consider Quartertone or any other Microtone instruments here (*).
I hope that I have understood this well now.
Brendan wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 9:51 am
Yes: the Regular Breath MORBENDZ will be cheaper, for sure.
So it might pay to be a little bit patient and wait till this might come one day. I just was thinking about ordering one. But the current price is quite a chunk - especially considering that my last teeths and my prothesis are rapidlly falling apart just now, and my general health is getting worse constantly, so I do not know how long I will be able to play harmonica ambitiously further on at all.
Brendan wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 9:51 am
I hope that eventually the MORBENDZ could be a factory manufactured harp: in that case, the price would plummet! But let's see
If this factory would be Seydel, Hohner, Suzuki or any of the other high priced major brands most propably this plummeting would not go so very much down. I would estimate that e.g. Seydel would have to charge at least about 150 € per unit, considering their average calculation on similar products in the near past. And I guess as well that those major brands are not very much interested in such niche products - not even Seydel as maybe the most innovative one. But - as you already wrote - let's see.
"It was a chance to work on a solo album project in the studio for the first time ... Despite the tackiness of the pre-recorded tracks, I'm proud of the harmonica playing - quite advanced for diatonic harp at that time."
That seems to me like a kind of a bachelor's piece - like those which every young craftsman is making on the end of his education to show what he has learned.
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Btw: Roni Eytan will give a concert at a harmonica festival in Berlin at the next weekend. I am looking forward to this. And I hope, he will have his microtonal harmonicas with him and play them.
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dear greetings
triona