[Harp-L] Stephen Hanner on the Harmonicaster electric harmonica

[Ronnie Schreiber]

Arthur,

I don't know what the reed spacing is on a Big Six but standard spacing 
on Seydel 10 hole diatonics is 8mm, and standard string (and pickup 
pole) spacing on an electric guitar is approximately 10mm. Unless the 
Big Six has a different reed spacing than their regular diatonics, it's 
not going to work well.

Also, as I understand it, the DM48 works just fine as harmonica-like 
MIDI trigger, so why reinvent the wheel?

I could make a MIDI Harmonicaster if I made individual pickup coils for 
each reed like a Zex-Coil pickup, but right now I'm concentrating on the 
one product.

Ronnie Schreiber
The Electric Harmonica Co.
http://www.harmonicaster.com

On 3/24/2019 10:56 AM, Arthur Jennings wrote:
> Hi Ronnie,
>
> It occurred to me that if you built a Harmonicaster around a Seydel Big Six and a Roland GK-3 (or some other divided pickup, you would have a very MIDI harmonica for driving synthesizers.
>
> Cheers,
> Arthur
>
>> On Mar 23, 2019, at 8:23 PM, Ronnie Schreiber <autothreads at xxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Here's a video of Stephen Hanner on the Harmonicaster electric harmonica, accompanied by Mike Gannon on acoustic guitar. Stephen is playing through an Epiphone Valve Jr amp, along with overdrive, and chorus/vibrato pedals. He's going to be launching a new YouTube channel called Hanner on Harp soon and I encourage  you to check it out.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzeOl52NbFs
>>
>> It's hard to describe just how cool it is to hear great players use my little gizmo.
>>
>> Ronnie Schreiber
>> The Electric Harmonica Co.
>> http://www.harmonicaster.com
>>
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