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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2019 10:27 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:48 am
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Re: PowerBender Versus EdHarmonica
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:34 am
Sounding good Rishio!
As I think we discussed earlier in the thread, I've used my own version of ED Tuning for many years. It's the same repeating scale, but starts on a hole higher up. It's the bottom octave of Paddy Richter (or Melody Maker) repeated, so I call it Paddy-Extended. ED uses the same scale but starts a hole lower (in the key of C, ED would start on A, and PE would start on C).
Either way, it's an excellent Hexatonic scale for the harmonica! I have quite a few different types of harps using it, especially X-Reed types. Most of the tracks on my 2012 album "New Chinese Harmonica" use various X-Reed harps in Paddy-Extended:
https://www.brendan-power.com/NewChineseHarmonica.php
I see you're in Taipei! I've visited and played in Taiwan, and have some good friends in the harmonica community there. Great place and nice people! Long may they enjoy their peaceful democratic life
As I think we discussed earlier in the thread, I've used my own version of ED Tuning for many years. It's the same repeating scale, but starts on a hole higher up. It's the bottom octave of Paddy Richter (or Melody Maker) repeated, so I call it Paddy-Extended. ED uses the same scale but starts a hole lower (in the key of C, ED would start on A, and PE would start on C).
Either way, it's an excellent Hexatonic scale for the harmonica! I have quite a few different types of harps using it, especially X-Reed types. Most of the tracks on my 2012 album "New Chinese Harmonica" use various X-Reed harps in Paddy-Extended:
https://www.brendan-power.com/NewChineseHarmonica.php
I see you're in Taipei! I've visited and played in Taiwan, and have some good friends in the harmonica community there. Great place and nice people! Long may they enjoy their peaceful democratic life
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:04 am
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2025 8:06 pm
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Re: PowerBender Versus EdHarmonica
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2025 10:49 pm
Nicely done!
Btw, talking about Taipei: The last year I happened to listen to a concert of Sirius, a very fine harmonica ensemble from Taiwan, who played at a festival in Berlin. They were really great. Maybe you know them as well?
Btw, talking about Taipei: The last year I happened to listen to a concert of Sirius, a very fine harmonica ensemble from Taiwan, who played at a festival in Berlin. They were really great. Maybe you know them as well?
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2025 5:13 am
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Re: PowerBender Versus EdHarmonica
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:57 am
Re: PowerBender Versus EdHarmonica
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2025 11:45 am
Thanks for the clip Rishio. It's great that you're happily playing ED Tuning still!
It is an excellent layout, for sure. As stated before, I made some harps in the 90s in the same tuning, but starting on a different note. In key of C it would be:
CD. EG. AB. CD. EG. AB. CD. EG. AB. CD.
(ED Tuning is the same, except starting on AB below the initial CD.) Originally I called this tuning 'Paddy-Richter Extended', but have more recently switched to the name 'Power-Hexatonic'.
AFAIK I was the first person to record with this tuning, in the track "Tom's Tune" on my 2004 album TRADISH. It's Track 9 on this link:
https://www.brendan-power.com/Tradish.php
If there's an earlier recording using my layout or the ED Tuning version, I'd love to hear it!
Like any harmonica tuning, it has plusses and minuses, but it's mostly on the plus side
It is an excellent layout, for sure. As stated before, I made some harps in the 90s in the same tuning, but starting on a different note. In key of C it would be:
CD. EG. AB. CD. EG. AB. CD. EG. AB. CD.
(ED Tuning is the same, except starting on AB below the initial CD.) Originally I called this tuning 'Paddy-Richter Extended', but have more recently switched to the name 'Power-Hexatonic'.
AFAIK I was the first person to record with this tuning, in the track "Tom's Tune" on my 2004 album TRADISH. It's Track 9 on this link:
https://www.brendan-power.com/Tradish.php
If there's an earlier recording using my layout or the ED Tuning version, I'd love to hear it!
Like any harmonica tuning, it has plusses and minuses, but it's mostly on the plus side