[Harp-L] Re: Aura: a harmonica or a Jaw harp?

[Nidalap :D~ <nidalap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

  Hi Fernando!

  Yes clearly the Aura on the picture is a collection of jaw harps,
  but jaw harps and harmonicas are really not so close.
  It's hard to believe that the prototype of harmonicas is this...
thing!
  I find the reply by Bobbie Giordano helpful, maybe there 
  are two Auras, different instruments by two inventors.

  By the way, according to the Hornbostel-Sachs system,
  Jaw harp and harmonica are very different instruments.
  The Jaw harp is a "Plucked idiophone", and the harmonica
  is a "Free aerophone". Some information can be found from:

 
http://www.phatnav.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_musical_instruments_by_Hornbostel-Sachs_number

  All the best,
  Nidalap :D~

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