The Game Changer is the most exciting harmonica to come along since we started in business in January, 1996! Read the description at the bottom of this page to learn why. It makes our Bushman motto possible – Dream it, Play it! The Game Changer is available in 3 very different tunings: Richter, Solo, and Paddy. I think every serious harmonica player should own a Game Changer! It is 12 TET Equal Temperament Tuned, and has stainless steel cover plates, chrome plated reed plates mounted on a ABS plastic comb, and phosphor bronze reeds. It comes in a black leather covered, hard shell case. Keys: A, Bb, C, D, G, and Low F.
The Richter Game Changer – Richter tuning, also known as Blues tuning, is laid out exactly like a regular, 10-hole diatonic harmonica. The age old challenge for diatonic players has been that if they want to get the sharps and flats (the black keys on a piano) they would have to learn to bend the notes. Well that works great for the blues, or any music where coming in flat or sharp and quickly adjusting to the right pitch actually sounds cool, but if you try that on a song like “Beautiful Dreamer”, for example, not hitting that flat note precisely will sound like a fart in church! And don’t be fooled, even Joe Filisko and Howard Levy need a moment to hear where they’re at on the bend before they’re perfect. The button on the Game Changer eliminates all of that – it allows the player to precisely hit the accidentals. With the Richter Game Changer, an average diatonic player can hit sharps and flats more cleanly and precisely than the best bending harmonica players in the world!
Before the Game Changer, if you wanted to play chromatically (as in, if you wanted to be able to get all the sharps/flats) you needed to get a chromatic harmonica. The problem for diatonic players is that a chromatic is Solo tuned, meaning the notes are laid out totally differently than a Richter tuned diatonic; so for a diatonic player, learning to play a chromatic is like learning a second language. Furthermore, chromatics take more air than diatonics, AND they’re clumsy and awkward to bend. Chromatic manufacturers try to solve that by adding irritating, plastic wind savers to make the harmonica more air-efficient, but then you can hear the wind savers flapping. Most diatonic players think chromatic harmonicas are real pigs – they take too much air, they fight you on the bends, they’re not as bluesy sounding, and they make flapping noises. The Richter Game Changer solves all of that!
The Game Changer has no wind savers flapping in the wind, it’s the most efficient, easy-responding, easy-bending harmonica I’ve ever played. It’s a diatonic with a button that can get the sharps and flats! It’s a little bigger than a 10 hole diatonic, but it’s much smaller than a chromatic…and it’s easier to play. The Richter Game Changer has a light blue comb.
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