Hello Friends, Just heard from the replicators about my new CD "Swingin' Easy...Hittin" Hard" I should have the CDs by the 8th which means I will be able to...
Hi PT. I sent two Emails to you last month with downloadable photos from SPAH 2005. I have not heard back from you. Did you get them ? Tulsa [Non-text...
Hi Tulsa, Yes I did and posted them on my site...I did reply...so I'm not sure why you did not get them. Thank you for the pics and for inviting me to be part ...
PDF] mhr3 schinfo (Page 1) File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML The sheng is the Chinese free-reed bamboo mouth organ traditionally used in court ...
The harp was invented in China. Kind regards Song Louis Elliott <lowtidelouy@...> wrote: Its a neat thing playin old time harp, I wonder if the harp...
The harp was invented in the ancient China around 7.000 B.C. Kind regards Song ... Not he Rvulutionary war. The harmonica wasn't invented until the 1820s and...
where can I see or hear this bamboo free reed harmonica, the sheng? ... __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 ...
Tim, do you know what tuning they were in before Richter? Thanks Louis ... __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 ...
... Not exactly - though it appears that the free reed used in harmonicas did come from China. The harmonica was invented in Germany in 1826 by a teenager...
... We have instruction manuals written in the U.S. dating from the 1870s that show tuning very similar to Richter - just as diatonic accordion tuning is very...
Louis, Based on the visual evidence (as noted by Winslow) my guess is that Civil War era harmonicas were probably set up to play chords. Probably to accompany...
... Civil ... Thanks Tim, I bet the chord style set up sounds great with the singing. Do you think some history program at a music school wants to sponser an ...
Hi Winslow Just curious; one chord has six reeds, the two others have five - do you have any clue how they were tuned? Do I understand correctly it had only...
Ludo - Yes, it is just a blow reedplate with a wodden shell that works like a comb - protects the reeds and channels air to individual reeds. Not a clue how...
In addition to the web pages showing Alan Bates' harmonica collection at the University of South Dakota, he also has his own website with contact information: ...
Hi Winslow There's no contact address for either, but it was just out of curiosity I asked anyway. I don't intend to build one like it ;-) Ludo Winslow Yerxa...
to be able to hear the fine arts from China. Here you can download the sound of a sheng, the USA and German harps are only copies of the late Chinese harp, the...
Hi All After a long Summer of more pressing obligations (sorry), I've got a new playlist for Roots Harmonica. Plans to create elaborate scheduling and "niche"...
Mr Bates wrote the following: The description in the museum link is wrong. The tonic key - the 6 reeds in the center - is D (A,F#,D,A,F#,D), with subdominant...
Ludo wrote... Mr Bates wrote the following: The description in the museum link is wrong. The tonic key - the 6 reeds in the center - is D (A,F#,D,A,F#,D), with...
Some additional info Alan Bates sent today: You might note that in ca 1830, only a few years after the harmonica was invented, there were no conventional reed...
... harmonica was invented, there were no conventional reed layouts. The Richter system didn't come along for at least 2, or maybe 3 decades. Even then it...
Hi All, Finally we will be able to supply virtually all of the keys for the Marine Band Deluxe. We will have our first shipment in the key of C, as well as...
