The origins of the harmonica are obscure, but it seems to have appeared first in Germany. There several tinkerers devised instruments based on the the fact that air blown over a reed fixed at one ...

But most present-day historians say the harmonica’s more immediate forerunner was invented by the Dutch physician and physicist Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein, who in 1780 used the free reed to ...

The concept of the harmonica began in China a few millennia ago with a bamboo instrument called the “sheng.” The sheng had bamboo reeds and was a prominent instrument in Asian traditional music.

How was the harmonica originally intended to be played? The harmonica is a transverse reed instrument that was invented in Germany in the 19th-century by clock makers. There are many different ...

He's currently working on his album Reed My Lips: The Rough Cut. In a performance chat with Tell Me More host Michel Martin, Yonnet says he embraced the harmonica after playing the drums and ...

U. S. Patent #2372129, dated April 10, 1945, for the construction of the reed plate and reeds for instruments of the harmonica type by Finn H. Magnus. U. S. Patent #2407312, dated September 10, 1946, ...

The author's own Lee Oskar Harmonica The best part? I have not had a reed go out yet on any of my Lee Oskars—and these are the ones I use the most. I have been so disappointed by so many harps ...

Just two games into the 2025 playoffs, the free-reed musical instrument has become ... according to board chair Yong Sin Shin. A harmonica class was introduced seven years ago, and the group ...