Vintage CHROMETTA 8 HARMONICA ~ Made in GERMANY by M. HOHNER ~ Original CASE

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Vintage CHROMETTA 8 HARMONICA ~ Made in GERMANY by M. HOHNER ~ Original CASE
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FROM AN OLD AND PROMINENT NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA ESTATE, A VINTAGE HARMONICA OFFERED AS FOUND, IN THE ORIGINAL CASE.
MEASURING 5.5" LONG, STANDING 2" TALL TO THE RED, SIMULATED LEATHER CASE, FEATURING THE TRADITIONAL HOHNER LOGO IN GOLD, ALONG WITH STYLIZED LETTERING ~
Chrometta 8
MADE IN GERMANY
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THE INSTRUMENT FEATURES A MAROON BODY WITH NICKEL SILVER SIDE PLATES, WITH MAROON ENAMEL FILLED STYLIZED LETTERS READING ~
Chrometta 8
M. HOHNER
MADE IN GERMANY
~ ALONG WITH THE HOHNER LOGO DEPICTING A MAN PLAYING A CONCERTINA.
CONDITION REPORT
> NOTABLY A WELL PRESERVED EXAMPLE ~ OVERALL FINE, VINTAGE CONDITION, BEST NOTED BY EXAMINING THE IMAGES OFFERED.
ABOUT the HARMONICA
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica include diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions. A harmonica is played by using the mouth (lips and tongue) to direct air into or out of one (or more) holes along a mouthpiece. Behind each hole is a chamber containing at least one reed. A harmonica reed is a flat, elongated spring typically made of brass, stainless steel, or bronze, which is secured at one end over a slot that serves as an airway. When the free end is made to vibrate by the player's air, it alternately blocks and unblocks the airway to produce sound.
Reeds are tuned to individual pitches. Tuning may involve changing a reeds length, the weight near its free end, or the stiffness near its fixed end. Longer, heavier, and springier reeds produce deeper, lower sounds; shorter, lighter, and stiffer reeds make higher-pitched sounds. If, as on most modern harmonicas, a reed is affixed above or below its slot rather than in the plane of the slot, it responds more easily to air flowing in the direction that initially would push it into the slot, i.e., as a closing reed. This difference in response to air direction makes it possible to include both a blow reed and a draw reed in the same air chamber and to play them separately without relying on flaps of plastic or leather (valves, wind-savers) to block the nonplaying reed.
An important technique in performance is bending, causing a drop in pitch by making embouchure adjustments. Bending isolated reeds is possible, as on chromatic and other harmonica models with wind-savers, but also to both lower, and raise (overbend, overblow, overdraw) the pitch produced by pairs of reeds in the same chamber, as on a diatonic or other unvalved harmonica. Such two-reed pitch changes actually involve sound production by the normally silent reed, the opening reed (for instance, the blow reed while the player is drawing).
HISTORY of HOHNER
Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of musical instruments, founded in 1857 by Matthias Hohner (1833-1902). The roots of the Hohner firm are in Trossingen, Baden-W. Since its foundation, and though known for its harmonicas, Hohner has manufactured a wide range of instruments, such as kazoos, accordions, recorder flutes, melodicas, banjos, electric, acoustic, resonator and classical guitars, basses, mandolins and ukuleles (under the brand name Lanikai)
From the 1940s through 1990s, the company also manufactured various electric/electronic keyboards. Especially in the 1960s and 1990s, they manufactured a range of innovative and popular electromechanical keyboard instruments; the cembalet, pianet, basset, guitaret, and clavinet. In the 1980s, several Casio synths were sold under the Hohner brand - for example, the Casio HT-3000/Hohner KS61midi and the VZ-1/HS-2.
Nowadays, Hohner produces harmonicas, melodicas, accordions and recorder flutes.
Clock maker Matthias Hohner began crafting harmonicas in 1857, assisted by his wife and a single employee. 650 were made in the first year. Hohner harmonicas quickly became popular, and in his lifetime Matthias built the largest harmonica factory in the world. During the American Civil War, Matthias Hohner distributed harmonicas to family members in the United States who in turn gave them to the soldiers.
In the 1920s, Hohner began manufacturing chromatic harmonicas, which unlike the "standard" diatonic form can be played in any key. Famous harmonicist Borrah Minevitch claimed he sold his design for the chromatic harmonica to Hohner.
In the mid-1950s, Hohner began producing electric guitars.
In 1964 Hohner released "The Beatles Harmonica Kit" which was sold in a blister package, much like most Hohner harmonicas nowadays, retailed for .95, and help what Hohner calls "bring about a new popularity upsurge of the Hohner harmonica on both sides of the Atlantic.".
In the 1970s Hohner began manufacturing acoustic guitars, and re-producing electric guitars. Musician Prince almost always played a Hohner "Mad Cat" and it was said to have been his favourite guitar. This Electric Guitar was modelled on the HS Anderson Mad Cat and was essentially a Telecaster.
Matthias Karl Hohner, son of Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Hohner [de] and a direct descendant in fourth generation and name bearer of the founder Matthias Hohner [de], was one of the last members of the Hohner dynasty involved in managing the family business, between 1968 and 1986. His son Matthias Francisco Hohner belonged to the first generation of direct descendants who did not enter into the family business. Many direct descendants of the founder are still active as members of the "Deutsches Harmonika Museum" and the "Hohner'sche Familienverein".
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