How to Tune Your Harmonica – Choose Your Tuning Goals and Measure Your Work… by entering the: War of the Musical Worlds! (Equal Temperament vs. Just Intonation) When you decide to start tuning your harmonicas you get into musical challenges that most people with “normal” instruments never have to struggle
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The following article was originally written in 2011, and I still can’t bring myself to get rid of the stupid puns… sorry! It Hertz to Have No Cents I am in the process of reading through about 60 pages of feedback, ideas, and questions on harmonica technology and music- notes
I have decided to simplify my line of harmonicas to focus on what I believe to be the ideal harmonica: The simplest design with the absolute minimum number of parts – 2 reed plates, 3 reed plate screws, 2 cover plates, 2 sets of cover plate screws, one comb. The
Harmonica Hygiene Scroll down for a video on the easiest way I have come up with for cleaning your blues harps, but first, I have a new challenge for you as a harmonica player. Are you willing to go pro with your hand washing routine / skills? You have a
I recently got this question from one of my tool kit / video customers: In talking to del Junco about different models of harp he spoke of the new Crossharp as being one of the brightest and the Special 20’s as the least bright. Special 20’s are good for the
In this post I will show you a couple of light box designs that I have built. They can give you ideas on ways you can build yourself a light box. This first box has a built in dimmer switch and uses a dimmable LED 60 watt bulb. You could
I took a look in my gig box of harmonicas and did an inventory of combs on my harps. These are the harps I use for studio gigs or playing out solo or with a band. My main box. 38 harmonicas. Here is the breakdown: 2 corian combs, 1 acrylic
I’ve come full circle with the draw scraper tool and have scrapers in Stock. For a while I was selling scrapers that were 1/8″ wide. I found that the narrow scraper takes smaller amounts of brass off at a time and makes it easier to fine tune reeds, and less
Wiha Scredrivers are super high-quality tools made in Germany and widely distributed. The type I use are called precision screwdrivers (pictured) and they have a red tip that rotates that you can put one finger on to guide the tool while using the rest of your fingers to rotate it
Reed Wrench / Reed Support Tool The new reed wrench / reed support tool replaces the two different wrenches that I used to include in my tool kit. I combined elements of both reed lifter / support tools into one design that works for exposed reeds or reeds that are
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