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A mouth organ is any free reed aerophone with one or more air chambers fitted with a free reed.[1] Though it spans many traditions, it is played universally the same way by the musician placing their lips over a chamber or holes in the instrument, and blowing or sucking air to create a sound.[2] Many of the chambers can be played together or each individually.
The mouth organ can be found all around the world and is known by many different names and seen in many different traditions. The most notable variations include the harmonica, and Asian free reed wind instruments consisting of a number of bamboo pipes of varying lengths fixed into a wind chest; these include the sheng, khaen, lusheng, yu, shō, and saenghwang. The melodica, consisting of a single tube that is essentially blown through a keyboard, is another variation.
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C. A. Seydel Söhne Harmonica (1880)
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Symphonium (c.1830) by Charles Wheatstone
M. Hohner Trumpet Call Harmonica in C (1906)
Harmonica (rear) and Blues harp (front)
Chromatic 16-hole (over) and diatonic 10-hole (under) harmonica
Hohner Melodicas
Plung, played by the Mru people of Bangladesh and Burma
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Sheng, a Chinese mouth organ
Sho, a Japanese mouth organ
Sompoton of Sabah, Malaysia
Khene, used in Mainland Southeast Asia
Lusheng, used in Laos, Vietnam, South China
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References
- ^ Miller, Terry. "Mouth Organ". Grove Music Online. Retrieved 26 Sep 2011.
- ^ Benyon, Ivor. "Harmonica (i) Mouth Organ". Grove Music Online. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 26 Sep 2011.