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POWERBENDER Now in All Main Brands
POWERBENDER Now in All Main Brands
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Brendan Power
88 posts
Sep 02, 2010
11:49 PM
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So far I've been offering the PowerBender in Suzuki and Hohner models. The first run of 50 Suzuki Harpmasters in A (the standard harp that comes with the Book/CD in the Introductory Package) was made at the Suzuki Factory, and that arrangement will continue.
Other Suzuki harps like the Manji, Hammond, ProMaster etc, as well as popular Hohner models like the Golden Melody, Special 20, Crossover etc are hand-tuned. Prices vary depending on the model.
Today I'm pleased to announce that Seydel have added the PowerBender to their range of stock tunings in their excellent Configurator. It means you can now buy the PowerBender direct from Seydel in all their options, including Super Low models and Half-Valving.
Go to the POWERBENDER page on my website for further information and links: http://www.brendan-power.com/
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nacoran
2686 posts
Sep 03, 2010
11:55 AM
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All Main Brands? Hey, until I hear Tombo/Lee Oskar I call shenanigans. But it's great news that Seydel has the option in the Configurator (actually, you can invent virtually any tuning if you are willing to sit there and request each reed the way you want, but that takes forever.)
And what about those fine harps from Golden Cup? It sounds like your tuning has conquered the portion of the harp world that deals in special tunings (except Lee Oskar tunings), so congratulations! :)
On a side note, does anyone know what the market shares are for different diatonics? (By $ and by number of units sold). It would be an interesting trivia fact.
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Jim Harris
47 posts
Sep 03, 2010
1:32 PM
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Brendan -- That is great news!! :)
Are all the others besides Seydel only available through you? If not, what is the procedure to get one?
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the_happy_honker
17 posts
Sep 03, 2010
1:51 PM
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@Brendan
You say your tuning is just two years old, so I'm wondering what this (2004) is?
http://www.planetharmonica.com/ph5/VE/PowerAllBendingUK.htm
Anyway, it all sounds very appealing. Maybe Santa will bring me a Powerbender-tuned Hammond this Christmas. The perfect stocking-stuffer.
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Greg Heumann
761 posts
Sep 03, 2010
6:13 PM
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Brendan that is very cool - you may have single-handedly altered the future of the diatonic harmonica more than anything in the last 200 years. Time will tell. I guess I better get one!!!
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the_happy_honker
18 posts
Sep 03, 2010
10:28 PM
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"more than anything in the last 200 years."
That would indeed be a stunning achievement, considering the harmonica has only been around for 175 or so years.
Sorry Greg, that was just too big to miss.
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Brendan Power
90 posts
Sep 05, 2010
2:08 AM
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It's only been two weeks since the POWERBENDER was launched, but it's attracting some good notices from early adopters, amateurs and pros alike. Here are some quotes from name players:
"Hi Brendan, The harps arrived, thanks. I am really excited with your tuning, especially the OB possibilities !!!! I'm finding so many cool lines that appear effortlessly with this tuning. It's going to take a while to really play my thoughts in 12 keys but it's totally possible with this tuning. You really have something special here - great work!" MIKE STEVENS (Renowned Canadian Pro Country/Bluegrass Player, Owner of four Manji PowerBenders, and Counting...)
"Brendan Power's PowerBender tuning changed my mindset on altered harps. I acquired one the day after SPAH and even though I was 100% harmonica'd out, I found the PowerBender to be a fresh sound to my ears. I spent over two full days playing with it and it's the first altered tuned harp that allows me to play what I hear in my head. I love that my signature 11-12th positions riffs are all available on this instrument via 2nd position. I love that all of my neo-soul, funk, jazz and blues lines are available within one comfortable position. Of all the special tunings, I've tried, which is most, Brendan has simply nailed it with this one, this is the tuning that really works and to me is the most practical." CHRIS MICHALEK (BUDDHA) (Highly Influential Player/Teacher, and maker of the utterly stunning "Buddha Harps").
"I really like it and think it's a fun tuning. Not only does it work well for bluesy licks, but you can also use it to play melodic songs in 2nd position which would otherwise require country tuning, or valves". TODD PARROTT (One of the Tastiest & Most Accomplished Overblow Players Around Today).
"PowerBender is awesome, Brendan!!" JOE SPIERS (Jason Ricci's Favourite Custom Harp Maker - need we say more...?)
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Chris' point about the POWERBENDER'S blend of 2nd Position with 12th Position in the same scale is dead on. The lower octave is the same as Richter, so you have all your familiar sound down there. Hole 6 draw is your tonic in 2nd one octave up (bendable of course!), and if you start thinking as if you're in 12th from there up everything slots into place, as the licks are very similar to Richter 12th - with all that same sweet soulfulness, but actually easier and even more expressive. 2nd & 12th together: It's a beautiful blend.
Can't wait to hear what Chris, Mike, Todd and the other pro players come up with on the POWERBENDER, especially when they incorporate the high overblows (available up to hole 10). Overblows aren't needed for most playing, but can give some cool enharmonic notes. That's an area I haven't explored at all myself, as my harps are half-valved (the PB works great in that setup too).
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boris_plotnikov
228 posts
Sep 05, 2010
9:48 AM
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First time I see note layout for powerbender I thought it's illogical and strange, but after reading such reviews I decide to try it.
I just make C powerbender Alabama blues and I wondered a bit. G major both natural, lydian and blues are pretty easy, Em both natural and dorian are great, all 3 octaves all scales. Dm and F are nice and easy, but not as flexible without valves. D major and B minor are great. Only five overblow needed Eb4, Ab5, Eb6, Ab6, all except Eb4 are easy. No overdraws. So it seems logical to avoid Ab/Fm, Eb/Cm, Db/Bbm keys (use them for practice mostly, not for gigging).
The things I dislike (they needs more practice) C natural and Am is possible but a bit illogical and need more practice, 9-10 halfstep draw bends are bit tricky to control pitch (hm, what about comparing to overdraws?)
To be honest I'm a bit frustrated. I spent almost 10 years playing richter diatonica and solo chromatics and I know the layouts pretty good. And now I can afford or make myself such tunings like powerbender or diminished which allows more possibilities with less effort. I can't decide do I have to start working with dimi or powerbender, or to keep my way playing richter or play all of them (so it's dangerous to mess the layout when improvise). What do you think?
Buddha, Todd are you going to practice powerbenders and use them live?
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DutchBones
388 posts
Sep 07, 2010
5:24 AM
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@ Brendan - POWERBENDER is a great name ... but have you considered adding your scale/tuning to the list of "legit" tunings?
We've got Major, Minor, Blues and Pentatonic, Dorian scale, Country Tuning and what ever... How's about Brendalian , Brandanian Scale or PowerTuning?
Just a thought....
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boris_plotnikov
234 posts
Sep 07, 2010
10:14 PM
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Maybe it's my language problem, no one wants to answer my question.
Is there any skilled overblow players who will start to study powerbender and use it live? Buddha? Todd?
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the_happy_honker
20 posts
Sep 07, 2010
10:47 PM
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Boris - I would be very surprized if any big name committed to performing live with the tuning so soon after its publication. And why should they commit themselves at all?
At any rate, there are some big names have said some very positive things. Unexplored possibilities don't come along very often in life, so I shouldn't wonder if some big names step in to fill the void.
You're a pro - be the first to do so!
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apskarp
326 posts
Sep 08, 2010
5:24 AM
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@Boris: I tend to agree with happy honker, why does it matter whether Buddha or others will spend time to learn this tuning? (I assume that they haven't made their mind about the thing yet anyway, the time will tell...)
It's reasonable to say that I'm still just a beginner really, but I'm committed to learn this tuning. The reasons being:
A) It's a good practice as you have to learn more ways to move around the ten holes - just like when you learn new positions or octaves, no difference at all
B) The tuning removes the need to utilize the OB's heavily, but you still can benefit from the ability to use them. (It also completely removes the need for OD's and blow bends which is good news for me too)
C) The tuning seems to be pretty intuitive for a person who has already learned richter tuning
D) There's at least one expert (Brendan) that has used it for 2 years, which means that it is a tuning that can take you a long way and thus you can be sure you are not just wasting your time with it
E) It is cool to be one of the few players utilizing OB's, but it is even cooler to be one of the few players who can OB and use alternative tunings as well !!!
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blogward
151 posts
Sep 08, 2010
5:46 AM
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I bought one, and I like it very much; I may buy a couple more, but the investment in time (and money) I've made in learning and enabling OB techniques on stock harps makes me reluctant to make PowerBender my tuning of choice, especially as chord playing becomes a non-starter and, to be frank, what audience apart from SPAH is going to notice the difference - if you're already 'skilled', that is? The biggest difference a non-stock tuning has made to my playing is moving hole 10 to hole 1, if you know what I mean - so I now have G blow and B draw on a C harp hole 1. Top C? Can live without it.
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Todd Parrott
180 posts
Sep 09, 2010
12:09 AM
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@ Boris
Sorry for not responding, but I honestly haven't been keeping up with the forum too closely the past couple of weeks - lots going on here. To answer your question, yes, I intend to incorporate the Power Bender into my playing, both live and in the studio. I'm still experimenting with it when time allows, and I really do think it's a remarkable and useful tuning. Just because one can overblow and overdraw doesn't mean that this is always suitable for every musical situation. Alternate tunings allow for different expression on certain notes, and the expression the Power Bender allows is something I find very useful, unlike some other prior tunings. Hope this helps.
P.S. I really need to post some more stuff on YouTube soon - the stuff I have out there is no longer a proper representation of my playing. Perhaps I can post something with the Power Bender also.
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boris_plotnikov
237 posts
Sep 09, 2010
12:41 AM
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Todd
Thanks for response. I think I'll try to explore this tuning more.
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Brendan Power
92 posts
Sep 09, 2010
2:06 AM
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@ Boris:
You ask some good questions, ones that have concerned me too. I've created many personal alternate tunings over the years and explored most of them in depth, to the extent of compiling a whole set of 12 keys in each and recording many CDs with them.
Every time I created a new tuning I had the task of re-learning breath/movement patterns, and to start with it is slow. So the first thing I would say is: don't judge too soon. Give yourself some time with the PowerBender. It will come to you; she's a sexy thing...
Every tuning has its strengths, but after going through many phases of adopting a particular tuning as my main one for several years at a time, in 2008 when I made the PowerBender it was like a Eureka moment! I do feel this one is really special, which is why I've gone to the trouble of writing a book on it.
The joy of discovering it came because the things I heard in my head just flowed so easily, with so much expression through the range.
I suggest you start with 2nd position major and 5th position minor. They are related of course, so your licks will reinforce each other. Play the pentatonic scales and you will find that cool phrases just come out easily. If you think of 12th and 3rd position on Richter middle octave, it will give you a good start to 2nd and 5th on the PowerBender (the phrasing is similar).
I think you'll find that many phrases that require such an effort with Richter in the middle and upper octaves (and delicate overblow setup too) just melt effortlessly into an easy flow on the Powerbender. What it's all about is usability: being able to play the really juicy notes easily and with lots of feel, and on a stock harp with no expensive setup.
Give it some time and then decide :)
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Brendan Power
93 posts
Sep 09, 2010
4:54 AM
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@ Todd: "P.S. I really need to post some more stuff on YouTube soon - the stuff I have out there is no longer a proper representation of my playing. Perhaps I can post something with the Power Bender also."
I agree on both counts... :) From what I heard at SPAH, your current playing has gone WAY beyond what you show in your YouTube videos; please do some more so others can hear it too. And I'd love to hear your take on the PowerBender!
@Boris: That's another thing to take into account: the possibility to sound really fresh and original with a new tuning. The Richter tuning has been around for over 100 years and millions of players have explored it, from the great jug band guys in the 20s/30s to the MANY blues stylists (most copying the greats like Little Walter, Big walter, Rice Miller, Sonny Terry), to modern overblow players like Howard Levy and Jason Ricci... Good players (like Todd, or you) are still finding new stuff on it, but the pickings are getting slimmer: so much has been done (and done to death) already.
The advantage of the PowerBender and other new tunings is that they give an adventurous player virgin territory to explore to create new sounds, licks, styles of their own. The PowerBender is two years old and has been explored by only one player (me) so far. I've created a lot of new lines with it, but that's just me, with my leanings and limitations. For example, I play it half-valved, so haven't got into the new overblow possibilities at all.
As soon as other players master it, a whole bunch of new amazing harp music will come out. Even after just a minute of them trying it at SPAH for the first time, I heard Todd, Buddha and others come out with stuff I'd never thought of!
The possibilities with this tuning are huge. It's still very early days, but when players of the calibre of Todd, Buddha, or Mike Stevens (who has 14 Manji PowerBenders now!) really master it, you will hear that it's not just a way to sound like Brendan Power (as someone said). I hope that wouldn't be the motivation, because it's really a door to a whole new way to sound like YOURSELF.
As Buddha says in the quote on my website, he can use the PowerBender to get his beautiful 12th Position sound - in 2nd Position!
That's what I'm looking forward to hearing in the months and years to come: whole new sounds and styles developing from adventurous players because the tuning frees them up to flow in new directions.
The Richter tuning is like a tired old warhorse: it's given good service way beyond what it was designed for back in the 19th century, but it's being pushed to its limits, and showing the strain. If you have to buy a $300 hand-customised harp just to keep up with the latest techniques there is something wrong somewhere, I feel.
The PowerBender starts with a blank slate and takes a fresh approach based on easy technique, the sounds harp players like, and the licks they want to play for contemporary music. It keeps the best parts of Richter and reshapes the harp so it plays great in 2nd Position with draw bends everywhere, on an average affordable harp out of the box. And it's easy to play in lots of other positions too, without overblows, as my demo video shows. But I've only scratched the surface...
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KingoBad
365 posts
Sep 09, 2010
8:11 AM
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Brendan,
That is a very powerful argument. I had scoffed at the idea of a powerbender -- mostly because of the things I have yet to learn and the many things I have already learned with richter tuning.
I like the idea of being able to take it new places and will probably give it a try once I have stopped bleeding from the money I sank into the new chromatic I just ordered.
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boris_plotnikov
238 posts
Sep 09, 2010
10:59 AM
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Brendan Power
Thanks for huge response. I still in frustration. I can't decide for myself 20 powerbenders in a bag (+20 richters of course) vs 3 diminished harmonicas (+20 richters). I have to keep gigging (and to practice richter and chromatic), but I want to find time to try new layouts (and I need to finish my PhD in ecology, although it looks much impossible). And it's not easy decision. Tell me why you recommend me powerbender over diminished?
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Micha
128 posts
Sep 09, 2010
11:35 AM
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I can't wait for my Powerbender to arrive...
I have this feeling about the Richter tuning:
It's designed for a whole different purpose than it is used now. By chance, it has shown to have some great abilities. But as it is being pushed into other territories, it has some clear limitations.
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REM
2 posts
Sep 09, 2010
6:57 PM
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Boris said:"Tell me why you recommend me powerbender over diminished?"
Boris you already asked this question in the other powerbender thread, and Brendan already answered. I'll repost his answer below.
BrendanPower's response:"Diminished is a very useful tuning for people who want to play jazz on the diatonic (full chromaticism with bends only), BUT... it doesn't have the traditional things most players love about the blues harp: the big fat 1 and 4 chords down the bottom, the easy playing in 2nd Position etc.
On the Diminished, playing simple major key melodies requires a lot of precise bending, but if you choose the good positions on the POWERBENDER, they flow easily with great expression.
The POWERBENDER plays like a traditional harp (identical in the bottom octave, and similar bends in the other two octaves).
Though it has great chromatic function with draw bends, and you can play one in all keys if you overblow, it's really more like a Richter harp than a Diminished: it's best if you have several in different keys and play them in some favourite positions that sound great and lay easily without strain, so you can just get down and wail."
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isaacullah
1158 posts
Sep 09, 2010
9:13 PM
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As a slight aside: Boris, I've been working on my PhD in Archaeology for 5 years, and as a consequence of dealing with the stress of grad school, I took up playing harp 3 years ago. I'm just curious how long have you been at your PhD? And how does it relate to your harp playing (if at all)? I know Doc Gussow was playing on the street during his PhD years....
Hey! Do you want to wager on who will get his PhD first? You in Ecology, or me in Archaeology? Let's say that the loser buys the winner a nice new Manji Powerbender? :)
Maybe that will add some additional motivation for us to get those darn dissertations written! :)
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boris_plotnikov
239 posts
Sep 09, 2010
10:07 PM
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REM
I remember that, but brendan answered "Diminished is a very useful tuning", not "You have to choose powerbender because...".
isaacullah
Russia is very stupid country. I had to go to postgraduate courses to avoid military service. Now I already spent 4 years after university plus 2 years in university for collecting and describing and ranging my myxomycetes (slime molds, fungi-like protozoan). Now I don't need to avoid army but I have a bunch of material and it'll be stupid to give up dissertation. I don't want to be an ecologist in future, I want to be all time musician and musical teacher, and I can't skip any useful festival, gig, jam and I virtually have no time to work on my PhD. I'm not ready for a wager, I'm short money now ((: Anyway cool idea.
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apskarp
328 posts
Sep 09, 2010
11:06 PM
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@Brendan: You said that the powerbender is more like a richter tuning than diminished in a sense that it's best to have it in several keys which enables easy and expressive playing. You have also marketed the powerbender tuning to be designed to play easily in 8 positions. My mathematics says that then you shouldn't need as many powerbenders in your gearbox as you do with the richter harps.
So as you have experimented with the tuning already for 2 years, can you say which key harps support each other the best (position-wise)? I mean, I'd expect that 8 easy positions mean that you don't have to have all the keys available.. Or does that depend entirely on the style of music?
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boris_plotnikov
240 posts
Sep 09, 2010
11:56 PM
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apskarp
as for richter different keys have different expression and different chordings.
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apskarp
329 posts
Sep 10, 2010
3:05 AM
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That's true Boris, but still some positions are pretty good for some styles of music. E.g. richter tuning makes it pretty easy to use 2nd, 3rd & 1st position with blues. So I find myself utilizing same E-harp for blues in A & B. (Or C-harp for blues in G & D.) I wonder if powerbender tuning makes it possible to, say, play blues relatively easy in 4 or 5 positions, which then means that you don't really have to carry but let's say 2 harps with you to cover jam sessions in all the common keys.
I know this is relative to both the style of music you mostly play and personal preferences, but I wonder if Brendan has already found out that he uses mostly just e.g. 3 different key harps (e.g. A, C and Eb) with almost all the music he plays..
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Brendan Power
94 posts
Sep 12, 2010
3:00 AM
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@apskarp: "@Brendan: You have also marketed the powerbender tuning to be designed to play easily in 8 positions. My mathematics says that then you shouldn't need as many powerbenders in your gearbox as you do with the richter harps. I mean, I'd expect that 8 easy positions mean that you don't have to have all the keys available.. Or does that depend entirely on the style of music?"
Howard Levy can play in all 24 major and minor keys on one Richter harp, but he has a full range of harp keys in his case. Others, like Tinus or Otavio Castro, strive to play everything on one C harp.
I'm with Howard's approach (though a long way from his realisation of it!): try to learn the harp in as many keys/positions are useful and musical for you (the number will vary with the player), but keep a full set so you can get the flavour and nuances you need for the song.
Even though I can play minor keys in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th positions on the PowerBender, generally one of the choices will suit better than the others for a particular tune, so it's nice to have the full range of harps to try out the options. Same with the major key options: one position will be the best for the tune.
@boris: Only you can answer your question about which way to go with tuning choices. I long ago abandoned the full Richter tuning and have been through several personal tuning evolutions to arrive at the PowerBender. To me there is no contest: it is simply superior to Richter as an all round funky improvisational tuning for contemorary music, while incorporating the best of traditional harp sounds. So my harp bag is simple: 20 PowerBenders and a few specialist tunings for particular situations.
As for Diminished - if you want to play pure jazz, it's theoretically the best harp tuning. I have yet to hear anyone play it with real flourish and conviction, but no doubt that will happen in time. Eric Chafer proved the Augmented is a great tuning for jazz too; if you haven't checked out his amazing playing you should - if only to add more confusion to your dilemma ;) Check out the sound clips on this page:
http://www.planetharmonica.com/EricChafer.htm
Food for thought, huh?! Apparently Eric has abandoned the harmonica altogether, but he's certainly left a powerful statement in favour of the Augmented tuning for jazz in the few snippets he recorded nearly 10 years ago.
The PowerBender isn't aiming to be like Diminished or Augmented, which are not centered in any particular key. On them you can modulate keys easily, but simple major key pentatonics and melodies require a lot of precise bending, and there are no fat bottom-end chords.
The PowerBender is a key-based harp like Richter, where the home and related keys play easily without much bending. It's basically a Richter development: keeping the best parts of Richter and putting them through the whole range, while eliminating the annoying aspects (eg. the breathing pattern change at hole 7).
No one can make your choices but you, Boris. But at least you're curious and trying things. What I feel is sad is that 99% of players make their tuning choice by default: they just play what comes out of the box and never question it. Not unlike sheep, blindly following the herd... To me, that's mystifying: one of the wonderful things about the harmonica is that you can alter the scale and choose the one you want to use.
Remember, the so-called Richter Tuning started as the creation of one person at one point in time, around 120 years ago. It's just an arbitrary arrangement of notes that suited 19th Century German oom-pah playing in 1st position.
It does that very well, and human inventiveness has since adapated it to a huge range of other styles and techniques. But the anomalies from the 19th century remain, and it does not have even expression through the range.
It wasn't designed for bending expression, but that's what most modern harp players love the most about the harp - so why not alter it to give us more of what we like? That's where the PowerBender is coming from: adapting and updating a much-loved old model for contemporary use, but retaining the essence of what makes it so appealing.
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jim
349 posts
Sep 12, 2010
5:05 AM
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Brendan,
can't agree more. I can only add that one should try several different tunings to find something that suits him/her the best.
Everyone has his/her own of musical thinking, and different tunings offer different logic. Some will suit you better, some worse.
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apskarp
330 posts
Sep 12, 2010
7:17 AM
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Thank's for your answer, Brendan. That clarified the thing for me as I was little bit unsure of whether your philosophy with the tuning was closer to that of diminished tuning or key based playing.
Another thing that I found myself thinking is why to stop with ten holes either? I know you have done e.g. 12 hole custom harps to extend it even farther. Are you thinking of using this tuning (or some other tuning) with other than 10 hole harps?
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hvyj
588 posts
Sep 12, 2010
8:11 AM
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Hey, Boris, Maybe you should compose a new tune to play on your PowerBender and call it The Protozoa Blues.
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REM
3 posts
Sep 12, 2010
8:21 AM
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Brendan,
Thank you for posting that link to Eric Chafer's playing, it was amazing. Looking at the tuning layout I never would have imagined that he would be able to play it as fluently as he does. I was thinking it might sound somewhat forced, considering all the precise bends needed, but he seems to play it effortlessy(and with considerable speed when he chooses).
It's unfortunate that he decided to give up the harmonica, he really seemed to be doing something quite innovative and unique, it would have been interesting to see what else he would have done with the instrument.
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boris_plotnikov
241 posts
Sep 12, 2010
5:23 PM
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Brendan Power
Thanks for great response. Eric Chafer is great, I wondered I didn't hear him before. However augmented tuning looks not so interesting because it needs bunch of work on intonation, augmented scale is not so common on music, playing minor third over major chord is much better than major third (from tonic) over minor chord.
I think decide to slowly try both diminished and powerbender to choose one, but not giving up richter until I get good using one of altered.
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Micha
130 posts
Sep 13, 2010
2:48 PM
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Been playing my PowerBender for the last 2 days. Immediately feels like there is much potential. 2nd Position has got a very nice feeling to it.
I do need to spend a lot more time on it...
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mercedesrules
18 posts
Sep 14, 2010
7:19 AM
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.....As a beginner,I won't have much to say about the tuning for a while, but I want to say how pleasant it is to deal with Mr. Power, Not only does he create the tuning and arrange for the harps to be manufactured, but after ordering, I received what appeared to be personal emails from him about the progress of the order, shipping date and request for comments. The order came yesterday, Sept. 13 on a Sept. 5 order - from England to Texas, US. So, I get to deal with someone that wrote the book, designed the tuning, recorded the CD and followed up to mail the package. He scribbled a note on the book! Pretty cool for 2010!!
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Brendan Power
95 posts
Sep 14, 2010
4:27 PM
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@Micha: Glad you're enjoying it!
@Mercedesrules: Thanks! Just doing my job, but I appreciate the feedback, it's heart warming :)
Maybe if I keep pleasing my customers I might even be able to afford a Mercedes one day, to discover whether they rule or not!
I guess I'd have to buy an Audi, a Beemer and a few others too, to get a fair comparison. Has anyone done a blindfold test for cars - or is that too life threatening?
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HarpMan Freeman
154 posts
Jun 30, 2011
3:54 PM
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I just received what I call my Back to Back Special.
I got Brendan Power's PowerBender Tuned Seydel Session Steel with PT Gazell's half-Valve material system.
If you haven't heard their album check it out on CD Baby at Back to Back
Here is a picture of my Back2Back Special.
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