Harmonetta
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The Harmonetta is a musical instrument with punch blades of metal in air ducts of the company Hohner .
history
The Harmonetta was developed and built by the Hohner company in Trossingen in the 1950s . In 1958, Hans Lüders and Helmuth Herold published the "Easy to understand game instructions for the Hohner Harmonetta" at Hohner Verlag Trossingen. It is no longer built by the Hohner company. Occasionally, individual copies are available for purchase in forums and auctions. There are some demonstrations of the harmonetta players in video portals.
overview
The harmonetta is a very unusual harmonica- like wind instrument. It belongs to the single-tone or single-choir instruments, as each blown or drawn tone is produced by a reed. With it the play of single notes, chords and harmonically correct melody and accompaniment is possible. Due to the ingenious arrangement of the individual tones on the specially developed honeycomb keyboard, it is technically relatively easy to play musically very interesting triads and chords. The complex key mechanism enables the pitch and thus the chords to be changed easily by simply moving the instrument in the mouth.
Components of the harmonetta
The Harmonetta consists of three main parts:
- Disguise
- Sound body
- mechanics
Playing technique and theory
Due to the ingenious arrangement of the individual tones on the specially developed honeycomb keyboard, it is technically relatively easy to play musically very interesting triads and chords. While playing, the recognition of the individual keys is only possible to a limited extent, so that "blind" play is the first goal of the learning process.
Chords
While playing the chord it is possible to change the individual notes of the upper part by shifting the position of the facial axis. As a result, triads do not need to be notated with their three individual notes. It is sufficient to specify the melody tone with the name of the chord under the note lines with a tone letter. This does not change for more complicated chords where the melody tone is not necessarily part of the underlying chord.
Achievable tones
- small octave:
fgah
- dashed octave:
c´defgah
- two-stroke octave
c´´ defgah