[Harp-L] Melodica sighting at DSO

[philharpn@xxxxxxx]

Some may not consider the melodica a real harmonica but it sounds like a chromatic and plays more chords than a chromatic and is a free reed instrument.
   
   
    
    
     Saw Jeff Tyzik conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra last Friday morning at Orchestra Hall in Detroit for a pops series featuring the Nat King Cole Songbook as sung by Denzal Sinclaire. The second half of the concert featured some non-Cole standards. Sinclaire also sang the tunes in the second half and played melodica on several tunes wyh the symphony.      
       
      
      
 I don't think I've seen the melodica played with a symphony orchestra much, if at all. The melodica (trade name of Hohners blown piano keyboard instrument. Sinclaire played the melodica with a windpipe extension holding the melodical in a piano position. My melodicas have a strap allowing the player to hold the instrument in-line (vertically) with the body.       
      
       
      
      
       In the video below, the player holds the        melodica        like Sinclaire did.      
      
       
      
      
 Here's a youtube of Bohemian Rhapsody       
      
 <      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTWf122wHkw>;      
      
       
      
      
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 NO. This was NOT PLAYED at the DSO pops concert.      
      
       
      
      
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Helmar Hill on melodica with the Robert Bachner Big Band
 
 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSBrP7ibO2k>;
 
 ==Phil