Harmonica playing means
OwnerJames W. Vidlerinventor
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Abstract
A device to facilitate playing a mouth blown harmonica comprising a body with a plurality of flaired air channels which extend from registry with the harmonica blow holes to the outer periphery of the body. That periphery is shaped to fit the mouth of the user so that a single channel can be easily used at any one time.
Claims4
In a mouth-blown harmonica, the improvement wherein the wind-entrance apertures thereof are in communication with a trumpet, said trumpet having therein a plurality of discrete flaired channels, each wider at the respective inlet end thereof than at the respective outlet end thereof, each outlet end of said plurality of channels terminating in registration with a single wind-entrance aperture of said harmonica, and each respective inlet end of said channels terminating in an embouchure aperture of mouth-conforming size, all said embouchure apertures lying in longitudinal juxtaposition along the outer periphery of said trumpet, allowing each separate note of said harmonica to be sounded by the entire mouth of a player applied selectively to an appropriate one of said embouchure apertures which is in communication, via its associates channel, with the wind-entrance aperture corresponding to said note.
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