A Christian named Friedrich Buschmann (German) applied for a European patent for his own musical instrument. He called it a "halo" (the aperture on God's head). It is a reed instrument, which consists of a series of steel reeds arranged vertically in a small room.
When Buschmann described his new musical instrument to his brother, he said, "This new musical instrument is extraordinary. Its overall size is only 4 inches, but it has 265,438+0 tones. It can play all crescendo, crescendo and harmony, and can keep a tone for any time. " The deficiency of the original design is that all holes are blow holes. Buschmann's original design was copied a lot, which led to many modifications and improvements. Richter, a Bohemian harmonica manufacturer, has greatly improved the early harmonica design. 1826, he developed a distinctive harmonica, which consists of 20 reeds with 10 holes. Two independent spring blowing plates and spring absorbing plates are fixed on both sides of the comb cavity of the harmonica. Richter harmonica has achieved the diatonic scale and become a standard structure, which is called Mundharmonika or Moutorgan by Europeans.
1857 When German watchmaker Matthias Hohner turned his attention to the manufacture of harmonica, the history of harmonica changed dramatically. With the help of his family and a hired worker, his annual production capacity reached 650 vehicles that year. Before long, he hired more workers and developed a large number of production technologies.
1862, he introduced the harmonica to South America, which greatly promoted Horner's leading position in the world harmonica manufacturing industry. 1887, Horner's annual production capacity exceeds 1 10,000 vehicles. Today, Hohner has more than 90 kinds of harmonica products with different styles and timbres, allowing players to play freely from classical music, jazz to blues, from country music and rock music to local music all over the world.
After the American Civil War, the harmonica became the most popular musical instrument because of its portability.
The birth of the blues harmonica is still unknown (just as Brutu's music can be produced, but it can't be verified).
Perhaps I accidentally discovered the fact that the harmonica can bend, and then modified it into today's appearance (blues harmonica) to imitate the groans and shouts of Fieldhall.
After World War II, black Americans flooded into Chicago, and many blues musicians were born. It is for this reason that Chicago was established as the harmonica capital.
1924, in the first recording of American folk harmonica, unknown musicians played blues music in an improved way. He plays the seventh chord in phonetic notation, such as playing the G key on the harmonica in C key (that is, the second place, the cross harp). Most importantly, he found that by changing the mouth shape and the air pressure in the mouth, the sound can be reduced, which is now called bending, thus greatly improving the musical expression of the harmonica. This recording can be heard to imitate trains, fox chases and other typical blues music.
There is a musician named Howard Levy in America. When he was studying at 1970 Northwest University, he happened to find that the sound of blowing can be blown over, and then the sound of inhaling can also be blown over. This is a big surprise. It took him about three years to finally be able to play three semitones within 8 degrees on the blues harmonica, and he can also play 12 on the harmonica. This makes the musical expression of harmonica more affinity.