Re: [Harp-L] PowerBender in Public Use

["Doug H" <dough.harpl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for providing the links Brendan.  The Paclin shows that the PowerBender can work well for blues, but as I listened to Alex's other videos of blues playing, I wondered which of those used your new tuning, if any.  Anyway, I for one would appreciate getting links to any other videos featuring the PowerBender applied to blues or jazz.  Offlist would be OK, but I suspect that others share my interest.

Doug H

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brendan Power 
  To: Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 1:37 PM
  Subject: [Harp-L] PowerBender in Public Use


  It takes a while to learn a new harmonica tuning, but some early adopters of
  the PowerBender tuning are now starting to use it in public. 

  Canada's bluegrass maestro Mike Stevens is a total convert: I have made 14
  Manji PowerBenders for him, and recently retuned 22 of his Filisko harps to
  the tuning (10 reeds per harp = 220 reeds, a mind-bending job!). Mike told
  me that he used the PowerBender for the first time on a recording session
  today.

  Another very talented player who has got his lips well round the PowerBender
  is the young Russian harp tsar/star Alex Paclin. Check out his cool solo in
  this video, on a PowerBender in A (2:20 onwards):

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2cVOEX9jy4

  More info here:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNoxhd0EdLU 

  Brendan Power
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