New Harmonica Patent

[<ficara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone know anything about this? It's been reported in at least two
places (including the NY Times) that William R. Epping, a Hohner
employee, was granted a patent for "the first blues harmonica to play
all the notes of the chromatic scale." One article said that it looked
just like a regular diatonic, "but incorporates an additional set of
vibrating reeds that gives it additional range." Sounds like a
chromatic??

This was on page D2 of the Feb. 1 NY Times. The patent number is
5,182,413.


Ken Ficara                                        ficara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
GEnie: K.FICARA / Compuserve: 71311,1461 / AOL: KENFICARA / Prodigy: (Ha!)