This is the website for professional harmonica player/maker Brendan Power. Here you'll find my albums, custom harmonicas, instructional material, plus music to listen to, interesting stuff to read and links to click.

RICHARD SLEIGH: Premier Harp Customiser and Player, author of the excellent tech book "Turbocharge Your Harmonica" " Brendan Power's PowerBender tuning changed my mindset on altered harps.

Overblow-Booster Mk2 - Make Your Own! This will allow you to save money and fit the parts to your existing harps, to vastly enhance the power, volume and expressiveness of your overbends for an affordable price. To assist, I've made a detailed video showing the whole process from beginning to end, with running commentary and helpful annotations.

These harmonicas are not just for Irish music. Many use them to play other folk melodies, and even pop tunes! I have found the Slide Diatonic is also great for Chinese music, as the slider trills emulate the sound of the Dizi, the popular Chinese flute. You can hear the Slide Diatonic playing a Chinese tune below: Brendan demonstrates Paddy Richter

THE SLIPSLIDER DEMYSTIFIED - Revealing Video Shows All! To understand the basic concept behind the SlipSlider, go to the How it Works tab. To see/hear more useful examples showing the cool new bends, check out the videos relating to the Mk1 SlipSlider - all the main new bends are the same. ORDERING: NEW! THE POWER-PARTS OPTIONS

But the music! What a sound, what swing, what empathy. Sonny's harp playing just took me by the throat and drew me in. It was raw and primitive, yet highly sophisticated at the same time, and it really moved me. I came out exhilarated. Brendan in Christchurch, New Zealand (1978)

A longer video of Brendan playing all the parts slower and in detail, explaining fine points and how he gets around the tricky bits. PDF with Western Notation and Harmonica Tablature, showing the hole numbers, breath direction and bends.

UK-based New Zealander Brendan Power is acknowledged by many as one of the most creative, skilled & versatile harmonica players around today. Equally at ease on both the earthy Blues Harp as well as the sophisticated Chromatic Harmonica, he tunes them to his own scales to create a highly original style.

" I recommend every Suzuki Harmonica player to check out Brendan's new PowerPlugs, they make a difference in playability in the top register of the Suzuki chromatics, especially to the top two holes.

In about 2010 I started studying Chinese traditional music more closely, with a view to playing short pieces that caught my ear on harmonica. But when I tried playing along to the Erhu on conventional harps, it just didn't work - there was not nearly enough bending available!