Re: [Harp-L] Educator 1

[Douglas Tate <douglas.tate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:09 11/09/2004, Robert Koch wrote:
>    Dear list,
>
>    I happen to have a very nice Hohner Educator 1 in C... Looks like a
> big Golden Melody with two extra holes on the left. Starting on hole 1,
> it is tuned like the 2nd octave of your regular Marine Band.
> Unfortunately, the two extra holes are out of tune (badly). How do these
> holes relate to the rest o the harp ? What notes are they supposed to
> play?

The Educator 1 and Educator 2 were made for Education by Hohner.  There 
were student and teacher books to go with them very comprehensively and 
well written by Gareth Walters and Albert Rowe  (Music and script )  They 
were written so that teachers could work the harmonicas with recorders in 
class... So, much of the books was duet stuff right from the beginning.

The educator 2 was a chromatic version of the educator 1 and looked rather 
like a |Chrometta.

The low two holes  on each of these instruments were laid out as follows

1)  G (Blow)  A (Draw)
2)   C (B)   B (D)
3 and onwards were just as the rest of a chromatic.
You got the sharp of each of those notes with the lever in.

The Educator 1 was a superb valved diatonic.  It's only drawback was that 
the covers were of plated steel... which were cut and bent after 
plating.  This meant that the cut edges quickly went rusty.  A case of a 
few pence spoiling an excellent instrument.

Douglas t