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PowerChromatic Trochilus

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2024 6:24 pm
by rlb
At SPAH, I saw the Trochilus from JDR. (AKA the Bushman Game Changer) It's a 10-hole chromatic harmonica with various tunings, and no valves at all. You can bend and even overblow. Only $85 USD - but it plays pretty well.

I play PowerChromatic most of the time (even on diatonic harmonicas), so I got the C6 tuning of the Trochilus and converted it to PC. This involved tuning 3 F reeds to F#, 3 F# reeds to G, and lowering the (odd) high G down to F. It plays well, and gives me an inexpensive slide PC harmonica. Though I do miss having 12 holes.

Anyone else playing with this?

Re: PowerChromatic Trochilus

Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 9:57 am
by Brendan
Sorry for the belated reply...

PowerChromatic Tuning on a half-valved chromatic is my favourite for playing jazzy music with nice bending expression. I agree, 12 holes or longer is better than 10 for PowerChromatic. It's easy to retune PC out of standard Solo tuned chroms, and you can simply remove the outer valves.