Harmonica Accordion
OwnerNikita Verkhovskyinventor
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Abstract
Harmonica accordion is a musical instrument, analogical in design to conventional harmonicas; however, it has qualitatively different wider opportunities for the performer. Namely, in addition to solo play it can be used as an independent accompanying instrument, as well as to combine solo play with accompaniment. Furthermore, it allows to accompany in many (or even all) keys, and for each key it has all chord functions. This is achieved due to an arrangement of notes that the reeds are tuned in, i.e. due to a specific tuning. In addition, the instrument uses an additional bass body to play bass tones for all the chords and flow voicing in the accompaniment. The instrument is
Claims6
Harmonica Accordion is a musical instrument analogical to the conventional harmonicas by its design, appearance and playing technique, however, due to a different arrangement of notes and case structure, compared to the existing harmonics, it allows to play not only solo, but also accompaniment in any key, and a combination of both techniques.
The notes arrangement, which provides such an opportunity, represents a cyclic sequence of intervals between adjacent notes i.e. semitone-tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone and so on.
The notes sequence, as described in the Point 2, can be arranged from any notes and any point of the cyclic sequence and used in all known types of harmonicas in conjunction with the subsequent Points or as it is.
The case structure consists of two bodies connected to each other with a tight seal. The bottom body is fixed to the upper one with 0.5-2 cm shift forward and with angle of 15-30 degrees with respect to it so that the lower body's holes are located just below their respective holes on the upper one.
The reeds in the lower body are configured to the same notes as the upper one, but in the range of the first and minor octaves, thus differing from the configuration of the upper body by one, two or three octaves.
With the combination of all the previous Points we get a new instrument analogical to the common harmonica it its design and playing technique, allowing however to play not only solo but also a full accompaniment and a combination of both at the same time.
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