About History of Harmonica Memories

The harmonica is an instrument that is most easily played. Just blow and suck harmonica would sound pretty good. Harmonica derived from traditional Chinese musical instrument called 'Sheng' which has been used about 5000 years ago since the empire Nyu-kwa.

Modern harmonica was invented in 1821 by Christian Friedrich Buschmann. A simple brass instrument consisting of vibrating plates of metal arranged in horozontal with poor design and only provides inflatable chromatic tones.

The initial design of Buschmann ultimately widely imitated and modified for the better. One example is the harmonica that Richter made ​​a preliminary design of a modern harmonica. In 1826 he developed a variation of the harmonica with 10 holes and 20 plates fixed to the vibrating plate separation of functions is blown and the exploited. In the end, the tone is made ​​by Richter referred to as ringing tones and is a standard diatonic harmonica.
Seydel Family 1847 "Johann Christian August Seydel Seydel and Christian" who previously was a family of miners in Sachsenberg-Georgenthal / Saxony began to develop the harmonica instrument making business in because of its mining operations are suspended.

Manufacturing plant in Klingenthal harmonica in place at the foot of the mountain 'Aschberg', then the mngukuhkan seydel ourselves as the manufacturer of harmonicas in all regions of Saxony.

In 1857 when German craftsman named Matthias Hohner hours decided to become a manufacturer of harmonicas. With the help of his family, he can produce 650 harmonica year. Hohner harmonica introduced into North America in 1862 a move that brings the manufacturer into the number one producer Hohner harmonica separately. In 1887 Hohner was producing more than 1 million harmonicas annually. Now, Hohner has manufactured more than 90 models of different types of harmonicas, tone, and the model. Which allows to play various musical styles ranging from pop, blues, rock, country, ska and various others.