Harmonica

Details Harmonica Harmonica

1979-04-16

1980-12-09

Franklin, Lawrence R.

Music

Instruments

Wind

G10D 712

Patent

active

042377668

ABSTRACT:
An harmonica having a conventional body shaped so as to form a series of adjacent cavities and a plurality of reeds each of which is responsive to the passage of air to produce an audible musical note of a certain fixed pitch. Two reeds are associated with each cavity such that one reed is responsive to blowing into the cavity to produce a blownote and the other is responsive to drawing on such cavity to produce a drawnote. In one embodiment, the reeds are constructed and arranged such that the blownotes include the first, fourth and sixth notes of the major scale of a keynote and all the drawnotes are notes of the major scale of that keynote. Harmonicas utilizing modal scales are also provided.

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patent: 4069735 (1978-01-01), Bertram

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