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

[Michael Rubin]

The DM48 is great, but does not play like a diatonic, it plays like a
chromatic.  You can set the tuning to be like a diatonic, you at one time
could purchase a Brendan Power invention that made it MORE like a diatonic,
but basically, it plays like a chromatic.  If you could invent a midi
diatonic, I go into debt for it in a second.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 7:58 AM Ronnie Schreiber <autothreads at xxxxx>
wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >
>
>