HARMONICAS WITH STATIC MOUTHPIECE CONNECTED WITH A FLEXIBLE TUBING WITH SLIDING BLOWING DEVICE MOVED BY THE HAND?
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 2:29 pm
The history of harmonica writes that it was inspired by the Chinese instrument Sheng, which is like a wooden panflute but with one only blowing pipe that distributes the air to many pipes. (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_(instrument) ) Actually this may have lead the chinese to make an interesting panflute with a single flexible blowing pipe (as in bag pipes) and a sliding mouthpiece on the row of tubes like in the next link. https://drive.google.com/open?id=18JCFP ... SEBVHCUb-Q
(e.g.https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3283820 ... b201603_53)
Now this indeed makes the panflute 66% easier and faster to play as I have tried and tested. It is easier to move and slide the blowing-mouthpiece across the tubes, than to move the whole of the panflute across your mouth.
IS THERE A SIMILAR WAY TO APPLY AND PLAY THE HARMONICA?
I believe there is given a smart design and crafting (as many by Brendan Power) . Since harmonicas are good in playing chords , obviously the static mouthpiece must be of at least 3 holes (but not more than 4 holes), and allowing all the techniques , of tongue blocking , lip-blocking , bending, overblowing etc. Then this static mouthpiece will have distribute the air with 3 separate flexible pipes (possibly within one larger) to a sliding blowing device with at least 3 holes again, sliding on the many holes of an harmonica. The sliding blowing device will be moved fast with the hands. It is expected that with such an harmonica some advantages would be
1) You can play faster and learn it faster
2) you can play easier and more accurately, because you see the position of sliding blowing device across the holes of the harmonica
3) The mouth action is simpler and easier , static ,as there is no friction between the harmonica holes and the mouth.
Some disadvantages would be
1) New methods of holding the harmonica and sliding the blowing device must be created.
2) New methods of creating tremolo with the two palms , must be created.
It seems that the idea of sliding blowing device is not new as e.g. it occurs in the ChengGong harmonica (https://www.patmissin.com/gallery/gallery03.html), but the main idea of the ChengGong harmonica is entirely different.
Any encouraging ideas in this direction are welcome.
(e.g.https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3283820 ... b201603_53)
Now this indeed makes the panflute 66% easier and faster to play as I have tried and tested. It is easier to move and slide the blowing-mouthpiece across the tubes, than to move the whole of the panflute across your mouth.
IS THERE A SIMILAR WAY TO APPLY AND PLAY THE HARMONICA?
I believe there is given a smart design and crafting (as many by Brendan Power) . Since harmonicas are good in playing chords , obviously the static mouthpiece must be of at least 3 holes (but not more than 4 holes), and allowing all the techniques , of tongue blocking , lip-blocking , bending, overblowing etc. Then this static mouthpiece will have distribute the air with 3 separate flexible pipes (possibly within one larger) to a sliding blowing device with at least 3 holes again, sliding on the many holes of an harmonica. The sliding blowing device will be moved fast with the hands. It is expected that with such an harmonica some advantages would be
1) You can play faster and learn it faster
2) you can play easier and more accurately, because you see the position of sliding blowing device across the holes of the harmonica
3) The mouth action is simpler and easier , static ,as there is no friction between the harmonica holes and the mouth.
Some disadvantages would be
1) New methods of holding the harmonica and sliding the blowing device must be created.
2) New methods of creating tremolo with the two palms , must be created.
It seems that the idea of sliding blowing device is not new as e.g. it occurs in the ChengGong harmonica (https://www.patmissin.com/gallery/gallery03.html), but the main idea of the ChengGong harmonica is entirely different.
Any encouraging ideas in this direction are welcome.