A free Science & education program for Windows

Bendometer Playing System is an awesome, free Windows program, that is part of the category Science & education software with subcategory Music and has been created by Harpsoft.

It’s available for users with the operating system Windows 95 and previous versions, and you can get it only in English. The program version is 1.0 and the latest update was on 3/8/2007.

Since the program was added to our catalog in 2007, it has already reached 58.214 downloads, and last week it had 20 downloads.

About the download, Bendometer Playing System is a not that heavy program that doesn’t take up as much storage space than average programs in the section Science & education software. It’s a program very heavily used in some countries such as Turkey, India, and United Kingdom.

Bendometer Playing System is a harmonica software that used the microphone to teach you how to play bends, overblows, and even songs in harmonica tab format.

The first screen you should see is a simulated harmonica with notation. As soon as this comes up, you should be able to start playing your harmonica. As you do, you will see notes “light up”. The upper row (above the numbers) represents blow notes, whereas, the rows below the numbers represent the draw notes (or notes you breath in).

If you have trouble seeing notes, first try holding the microphone to the harmonica while playing (or quite close to the harmonica). This will help get more accurate note detection in any case. If you aren’t seeing any response, you might try changing mixers.

The notes are in standard musical notation. The picture above shows the notes in the key of ‘C’ as this is the harmonica pictured. You can also see this in the “Harp Type” dialog window.

When you load a tab file one of the notes will become highlighted. Simply play the highlighted notes to play the tune. When you have to play the same note twice or more, it will highlight in red.