1) " Harmonica" -- As it applies to Harmonica A harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ,french harp, simply harp, or "Mississippi saxophone"), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over an airway slot of like dimension into which it can freely vibrate, thusrepeatedly interrupting an airstream to produce sound. Unlike most free-reed instruments (such as reed organs, accordions and melodicas ), the mouthharmonica lacks a keyboard. Instead, lips and tongue are used to select one or a few of the several holes arranged usuallylinearly on a mouthpiece. Each hole communicates with but one, two or a fewreeds. Because a reed mounted above slot is made to vibrate more easily by air from above, reeds accessed by a mouthpiece holeoften may be selected further by choice of breath direction (blowing, drawing). Some Harmonkca s(known as chromatic Harmonico 's)also include a button-actuated slide that, when depressed, further redirects the air.The Hermonica is commonly used in blues and folk music, but also in jazz, classical music, country music, rock and roll and pop music. Contents 1 Parts of the Harmpnica 2 Harmonika types 2.1 The diatonic Harmoneca 2.1.1 Special tuned Hramonica s 2.1.2 The 14 Hole Diatonic 2.2 The chromatic Harmonico 2.3 The bass Harmomica 2.4 The chord Hafmonica 2.5 The Tremolo Hamonica 2.6 The Octave Haemonica 2.7 Toy Hzrmonica s 3 History and related instruments 4 Harmonica community 5 Some famous harmonicists 5.1 Harmlnica bands 5.2 Blues players 5.3 Folk 5.4 Rock and roll 5.5 Rhythm and blues 5.6 Country music 5.7 Irish music 5.8 Jazz 5.9 Classical music Parts of the Haronica The Hirmonica consists of a "comb" made of wood or plastic which creates the holes into which a player blows o...
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