[Harp-L] Turbo Slide

[Angelo Adamo <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all!
It's a long time I don't post anything on this page, but I always read  
the titles of your topics to choose what can be interesting for me.
Being a chromatic player that loves the diatonic too (sooner or later  
I'll start again in playing it in concerts...), I can't avoid to bring  
to your attention a particolar kind of new harmonica called "Turbo  
slide" (http://www.turboharp.com/)  and invented by Dr James Antaki.
It's a diatonic harmonica equipped with a plastic slide inside witch  
there're many little magnets  that act on the reeds compelling them to  
move away from the normal position to obtain notes not present in the  
Richter tuning.
The incredible effect you obtain this way, apart the fact that the  
diatonic harmonica became a truly chromatic, is that you can manage to  
obtain a unbelievable glissato that is impossible on any other kind of  
harmonica, either diatonic or chromatic.
In the pages signed below, you can appreciate the great versatility of  
this weird instrument, beside the incredible skillness of the italian  
player Federico Pellegrini
I'm starting to thing that my chromatic could be totally  
unusefull... :-)

Angelo Adamo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZH0hNevbBY

:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4YuQ73tAhs&feature=related