Triola
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| English: Triola , Italian: Triola , French: Triola | |
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Aerophon reed wind instrument harmonica instrument |
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The Triola is a toy instrument from VEB Vermona or VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke and later from the Klingenthal company CA Seydel Söhne and belongs to the family of harmonica instruments . The wind instrument has colored keys for easier learning of the tones.
construction
The Triola consists of a plastic housing in which there is an air duct. This leads the blown air from the mouthpiece into a pressure chamber, above which there are valves that are opened with different colored buttons. Underneath is a reed plate on a comb, similar to a harmonica . It works on the principle of the sounding tongue , with blowing and pressing a key producing a tone that is similar to the sound of the harmonica .
history
The Triola was developed in the early 1960s as a project as part of the rationalization of the combine for music and culture by a development team from the VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke and the VEB Vermona in Klingenthal as a children's toy instrument. The design of the original Triola was conical until the 1980s and the entire instrument was assembled at individual workstations during production. During the 1970s, the Stinima process was used to automate the production process for the manufacture of reed plates . Until then, the reed plate was riveted by hand . When a new fully automatic process was introduced in 1988/89, the old design had to be changed, as the production of the conical body was no longer possible. This is how today's rectangular shape came about. The reed plates were now also tuned semi-automatically and welded to the body , using ultrasonic welding to weld the key mechanism .
The production of the Triola amounted to around 400,000 Triolas per year in the seventies. Like many other children's instruments, it was sold by Goldon . In the meantime, the Triola was also sold under the name Bandy . After the German reunification , sales of the Triola collapsed and production was not resumed until 1993 using the manufacturing method. Since then, the instrument has been tuned and assembled by hand again at individual workstations , with several thousand Triolas being manufactured in this way at the moment.
commitment
The triola was already a popular children's instrument in the GDR, and it was also used in most kindergartens. It was manufactured exclusively for the GDR market and not exported. Therefore, their level of awareness in the old federal states is quite low. The Triola is now known across Germany's national borders. Attempts are being made to use the instrument in early musical education in schools and kindergartens. Various music books are available for the Triola, which are adapted to the "colorful key concept". Each tone has a different color and resembles the respective key. Thus, the player can play a song even if he cannot read the score. This is ideal for intuitive learning of music for preschool children.
range
The original triola had 12 keys and allowed playing in G major with a pitch range from d¹ to b². The later instrument has a diatonic range of eight or twelve notes , depending on the model , with a complete C major scale being playable. This enables simple children's and folk songs to be played.
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Tone sequence of Triola 8 starting with c¹ to c²
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Tone sequence of triola 12 starting with g up to d²
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Similar instruments of the VEB Vermona and VEB KHW
In addition to the triola, other instruments of this type have also been developed. The Coco was created by Dr. Hans Hoyer in Klingenthal and based, like the Triola , on the principle of colored keys. The sound, on the other hand, was created with small plastic pipes. The professional instruments, which were fully chromatic playable and equipped with a keyboard , included the accordion 26 , also called miki , and the simona .
- Brass accordions from VEB KHW or VEB Vermona
Blasharmonika Miki , later band master
Brass harmonica Simona
Injection molding prototype of the old Triola . The ready-to-sell Triola had colorful keys right from the start.
an old Triola , built in 1972.
The Coco
