ReedSqueal
492 posts
Oct 09, 2014
2:23 PM
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Pretty cool find.
I visited the main webpage but it was all in Russian. No surprise ;-) But google translation says:
Harmonica (colloquial. Harmonica) - pneumatic reed musical instrument, a kind of harmonic. Inside the harmonica are metal plates (reeds), which range in an air stream created by the musician. Unlike other reed musical instruments harmonica has no keyboard, instead of her tongue and lips are used to select the hole (as a rule, they are arranged linearly) corresponding to the desired note.
Blues harmonica (accordion, harp, blyuzharp) - a kind of harmonica. The most commonly used in such music styles like blues, blues-rock, folk (including bluegrass, country music, Irish music, Klezmer), as well as jazz and pop.
Invented by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Bushman in 1821. Blues harmonica in Richter tuning (set up in 1826, she majeure setting) and was the first harmonica in history, other versions appeared later. Black people the United States began performing blues harmonica in the late XIX - early XX centuries. In the late 1940s, Little Walter began to increase harmonica using a guitar amp, which gave it a completely different sound and ushered in a new style of play. At the end of the 60s, Howard Levy has worked previously used, but little known technique overdraw / overblow that allowed to play on blues harmonica chromatically, that is, including all the semitones.
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"You hear that cat...on the Harmonica?....That's the Canned Heat!"
-John Lee Hooker, Boogie Chillen'
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