MODULAR-REED HARMONICA - Quick-change Reeds!
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- čas přidán 23. 11. 2021
- My Modular-Reed Harmonica is a true game-changer in the harmonica scene: quick reed swapping for instant repair and alternate tunings! Check out the amazing new possibilities here:
www.brendan-power.com/Modular...
Thanks to our 2019 Beta Testers, whose positive feedback was very helpful:
Pat Missin, Winslow Yerxa, Edvin Wedin, Triona, Pat Byrne
Thanks to Stickythings for the labels:
www.stickythings.co.uk/ - Hudba
Super Smart ... Excellent >>>> Who else could have figured this out, but you. .....Great job .... just what I needed. Thanks Brendan!
Remember me from NAMM? Very soon I will be putting thousands of songs/tunes all over the internet, BUT .... I need a harmonica made to my very own specs. If I can find someone to create this harmonica ....That harmonica will super change the whole world of music in every field of music ...bar none. You'll see. Still ... I know for sure "Easttop" harmonica is the very BEST harmonica ever made .... this is why I push the Easttop harmonica free at no cost to the Easttop harmonica Company. I still cherish the photo we made together at the NAMM show, and at the Easttop dinner along with the Easttop owner who invited us all to enjoy.
Eli: "King of Rock & Roll Harmonica". I only play an "Easttop" harmonica because I am positive are the very best harmonica (and cheapest) in the world.
This changes everything!!! Repairs, tunings, on the fly!!! I hope the innovation isn't expensive!!! 😮
VERY COOL! My wife kaitlin also loves when I watch your videos! HAA!
FANTASTIC Mr. Brendan!!! I congratulate everyone involved in this beautiful project, which, as we well know, is certainly a watershed for the long-aforedreamed autonomy for those who are dedicated to playing harmonica! I keep wishing the leading manufacturers to carefully see the relevance of this incredible idea and all the versatility achieved by our instrument with the concept of modular-reed Harmonica! Total positivity always - from the friend of Brazil who continues to follow his beautiful works in the arts and design.
Thanks Waldo!
Brendan, you are the wonderful mad scientist of harmonicas - brilliant
Not sure if I will ever NEED to change a reed, but what IS for certain...I WANT this! Awesome execution sir. Looks like you may have nailed it.
Ever more innovations! I’d even just like those plastic arches in my cover plates, so I don’t have to undo so many screws when fixing or cleaning.
Another practical innovation! I already own a full set of your Paddy-Richters. You really are opening so many possibilities!
Just what we have all been waiting for, well done and best of luck mate
Brendan the unstoppable innovator. Wow.
awesome designs and innovations Brendan, wish you the best of luck with this project and all other future projects. thank you for the video.
Brilliant stuff, Brendan! I'm looking forward to giving one a try!
Brendan, this is absolutely BRILLIANT!
Ta Kinya!
Very cool! I like it, will solve some problems for me! Thank you for sharing.
Great stuff Brendan, congratulations!
Ta Steve! Hopefully s Hohner version down the line 🙂
Absolutely brilliant!
Exciting! Best wishes, Brendan.
Ta Pat!
Good luck with it !
Awesome, this is the greatest diatonic harmonica I ever seen.
Congrats.
Fantastic innovation !
Jednom recju bravo .Vi ste genije i u sviranju i u novom dizajnu osnovnih elemenata inszrumenta..Uvek ce umetnik doci do boljih i deja od inzenjera i tehnologa koji ne sviraju inssrument.
Excellent! Thanks!
Can’t wait to investigate this
Amazing!
eres un genio y yo como musico te doy las gracias desde barcelona
Another groundbreaking addition to your inventions Brendan. Top stuff! Do the individual reeds have the pitch printed on them? I couldn't quite see that.
Thanks Ben! The spare reeds in the cases do, not the ones on the harp itself.
This is amazing! I hope Hohner, Lee Oskar, and Suzuki license your patent. Would love to see this done with snap on cover plates to make swapping reeds as easy as tuning a guitar.
Fantastic
Спасибо за это изобретение! Я думаю это новый виток в развитии губной гармоники. Избавиться от напильника и громоздкого запаса гармошек.
Superb invention, Brendan! Enjoyed watching this video and learned a lot! Btw, do you make these for chromatic Harmonicas as well or only for Diatonics?
Wonderfully innovative. I now have a recurring nightmare in my head of 20 miniature reed plates on the floor when I'm cleaning one. 😳😂
Jabardast sir
wow, another great improvement in the Harmonica !! Hope it get adopted by the major manufacturers! Of course compensating Brendan into perpetuity!
That indeed is the ideal scenario! Let's hope it's not only in my dreams... 🥴
@@BrendanPowerMusic , the world of Harmonica players knows the genius that you are and try to bring to the industry, every major harmonica manufacturer would benefit and so would the players ! If Spah goes live again I will be speaking to each of the companies who present there . It is time to upgrade their products .
@@herbster22 The manufacturers are all good people, making decent products. But a little more ambition to push the boundaries of what harmonicas can be would certainly be welcomed by many
@@BrendanPowerMusic , And may I add, the other GREAT advancement that you brought was the MB30 which also has been left on the shelf and should have been brought to the marketplace , even the prototype was fantastic. As a new player back then I had a natural instinct to want to play all the notes and expressions that were possible and the MB30 was the answer before overblowing came into vogue . I hope you don't mind me posting this, but I truly recognize your contribution to our community and feel strongly that the manufactures should be supporting your advances, Tesla suffered a similar lack of support and our world was deprived of his genius !
@@herbster22 I really appreciate your warm words. It would be great to see a bit more innovation from the harmonica companies, but to do it right takes quite a lot of investment and risk, so they tend to play it safe. They've tried alternative models which haven't succeeded (Hohner XB40, Suzuki Overdrive and SUB30), so I guess they think the market doesn't want such harps. But I'd argue none of those three was an optimal example of its design concept, and could have succeeded with further development. Anyway, let's see for the future!
Nice one Brendan, you beat me to it...
Not really Richard! There's plenty of room for other approaches.- the more the merrier, I say!
@@BrendanPowerMusic let's catchup when I'm back in the UK next week.
@@richardsmith9671 Looking forward to it 👍
Sold!
Super! Duper!
This a great design and awesome to play around with alternate tunings. How easy is routine cleaning? I'm curious if the weak/strong adhesive on the comb is resistant to water. Typically, I use a sonic cleaner on all my current harps, which means they need to be metal/plastic or at least water resistant such as a composite or sealed wood comb.
Haven't tried it in an ultrasonic cleaner, will report back when I do.
Just to see what it would sound like you could even make reeds out of actual read what would that sound or even the same synthetic reads they're using now for other read instruments
Amazing Brendan! You are the Edison and Tesla of the harp world! I was wondering about quick-changing between songs - do you think it would be possible to use magnets instead of screws to hold the cover plates?
Good question! That would be ideal, and I tested it. Unfortunately the magnetic force from the size of magnets one could use is not sufficient to give the same inward pressure on the modular reedplates as screws offer. That pressure is important to keep the covers in place behind the comb lips, and hold the mini reedplates firmly against the comb for good tone and response.
@@BrendanPowerMusic I thought you probably had tested that already. I am excited to get one. To have access to all the different tunings, or adding notes that can be bent - this really opens up some revolutionary options without sacrificing the basic diatonic settings. Its simply awesome and a game changer.
Great, you have just made my shoe boxes full of old reed plates and combs redundant! Time to sell off on e-bay - quick! Do you know anyone who wants to buy my reed rivet tools?
Great innovations for those of us who like to tweak the chording for specific pieces of music.
Just chop your old harps up into modular reeds :)
@@BrendanPowerMusic There's an idea! Then all I would need is some sort of indexable comb system, a proper gasket material, and some sort of fixture to keep pressure on the reeds... Oh, wait....
@@BrendanPowerMusic I am sure I can save half the reeds by chopping the others in between. Do you think all could be saved?
@@jottonello I think so
* Will you also sell gaskets with valves? In that case it is probably a bit harder to create something modular. But I guess the valves are not that expensive to make. But is it glued on there completely?
* Will there be bigger versions of the harp (e.g., up to 16 holes)? Is it based on that exact model by Kongsheng? Or will you create your own harps?
It seems easier to mass produce parts with higher quality at a lower price.
I have made prototypes with Gasket-Valves but, as you suggest, they can't have the adhesive gasket. Individual valves are better in this harp.
It's early days for this concept. Custom combs would enable more possibilities for sure For example, a comb with all long slots for making chord harps, and combs of different lengths... If the demand is there, they will come in time 👍
Great!!!! Hope that price is not astronomical :)
Is it not possible to make a comb with all slots the exact same size, tuned entirely via differing reed weights etc. This would make this modular idea even more interesting. As mass comb production would be easier. All reeds also could then be the same heaviest size, then just need to be filed down hence tuned by the owner. You could also incorporate optional slide on plastic plates onto your individual reed plates that would shorten those fixed sized chambers.
It wouldn't be optimal for reed tone and performance to have all reeds the same size over a 3-4 octave range.
@@BrendanPowerMusic I thought that might be the case. I am going to get my hacksaw out and give it a go (for fun) with the model you have suggested. What did you use for gasket sealer?
With frequent substitutions won't the stickiness dissipate? Is it possible to design slide-in pockets to hold the reed in place and then the little fingers on the cover can mash them down tight to a gasket, only sticky on the plate side?
The amount of stickiness is not critical, it's simply there to stop the modular reeds falling about all over the place. I did try a gasket without outer stickiness, but the slightest wrong move and you have reeds everywhere.
oh lordy my oh my I want 2 Bro !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope you can design a chromatic harp similar to that in modular form.
Yes, a chromatic version is a nice idea! I already have a test model working in the form of my Switch-Harp, which is two diatonics behind a central mouthpiece/slider. However there are a couple of other approaches I'd like to try as well, and then pick the best. RnD takes a lot of time, which is a bit short at present, but I will get on to it 👍
@@BrendanPowerMusic thank you for your improvements to a wonderful musical instrument. I really like the ideas you presented for the change ups in keys and modified keys for different musical forms. I really like the country tuning.
Glad BrindenSir!
A new model of harmonica it shd be aimed. Large 24holed airtight diatonic. I dreamt it. Any drawback !?
Thanks! Of the demand is there, other sizes will be made in time 👍
can i buy one of these harps in pentaharp tuning like the ones hohner are making avalable in the uk next year ? andwill it be in the same blow draw configuration they are shouting about ?thanks and best wishes Brian
Sure, it's in the drop-down list in of you want to choose it.
Put my order in .thanks and best wishes Brian.
GREAT !!! Now I'll wait for your chromatic version. HAHA !!!
Haha... You know me too well!
holy shit, igor flach rotates in his grave an smiles down from harmonica heaven, haha. Brendan , my favourite killer. thnx
Wow, the extraordinary wonders of creative genius. I definitely want one, but is it just as affordable?
Sorry, it's currently discontinued
@@BrendanPowerMusic Nooooo, sir there's got to be a way?
@@BrendanPowerMusic Harp Master, why would you allow this to be so? Don't allow anyone to stop this production you are a part of. In in the event that something should happen to you, someone stands to benefit greatly from your contribution, and you would be none the wiser. And, if you have living family members, they wouldn't get one dime of this profit to be had. This is your greatest legacy which even surprises your extraordinary harping skills. Please my most admired creator and innovator of instrument of design, how can I get involved in bringing this back into circulation here in the United States?
@@jamessmith9962 I prefer to concentrate on innovation, not production. Hopefully some manufacturer will take this idea forward and I can earn a licensing fee 🤞
@@BrendanPowerMusic But sir respectfully, this is the ultimate innovation for the instrument. It cannot go any farther than you have found dear sir. I know this because I myself am an inventor. Sir, this harp that you have help to advance, is it. I am of the belief that either you have been made blind by your desire to keep pushing the envelope, or someone, has lied to you to divert your attention from this most brilliant advancement to the Diatonic harmonica. It would be as if Nicola Tesla, attempting to make the alternating current better. It is not possible. Therefore kind sir with all due respect, you need to reintroduce this item. Better yet, you should promote this to every harp player in the world; and maybe start a school of music promoting your innovative design of the instrument. Man I'm just seeing this and I'm blown away by it. It seems to me that the ones involved must not truly want this to succeed for fear of having to share the fortune. How may I obtain one? If I had the money, I'd invest my life's savings. This harp is the holy grail of harps you have to believe me. I've already told you, if you died, every person that plays the diatonic harmonica would be out to have one. But the true blessing is that you are still living which is much better than you not being. You are a genius and like Albert Einstein, your contribution shall never be surpassed. The Atomic nuclear bomb is the one thing that all the world knows, is the granddaddy of weaponry. You should be satisfied with this one, because as a person with great insight, there is no more that can be found or done to advance it any further.
👏B👏R👏👏A👏V💯
Mamma Mia!
It's a shape-changer... :-)
Wowwwwwww !
To the point please. We know who you are, brevity is the soul of a video.
Does this guy ever sleep? Ha, ha