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Tony Eyers retuned Hohner Thunderbird
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Harmonicatunes
77 posts
Aug 06, 2015
9:10 PM
I've released a video demonstrating a Hohner Thunderbird low low G tuned to Major Cross. You can see it here

The Joe Filisko inspired Hohner Thunderbird harmonica was released in 2012, and is a great low instrument. However "bending" the low notes is beyond most players, myself in particular, so melodies are challenging.

Solution: retuning the Thunderbird, in my case to Major Cross tuning. This was done for me by the master Australian harmonica customiser Neil Graham. This "Major Cross" Thunderbird solves the low note bending problem, and works well for melodies, octave doubling and bass lines.

Check it out.
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Tony Eyers
Australia
www.HarmonicaAcademy.com
everyone plays...

Last Edited by Harmonicatunes on Aug 06, 2015 9:10 PM
Pistolcat
827 posts
Aug 07, 2015
7:45 AM
Nice Tony! If you are interested at retuning your harps I can recommend the blutack/poster putty approach that isaac ullah has advocated here at times. It's absolutely risc free way of trying out timings before doing anything permanent (damage). The drawback is that you only can lower pitches as I understand it. I made a video awhile back after I retuned my Low, low F for playing "rains of castamere" in a easy third tuning.

https://youtu.be/EQ0aD8nOdTI

I can also recommend the scale finder on overblow.com to check out different tunings.
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