[Harp-L] harmonetta patents wherefor

[David Payne <dmatthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If we're gonna find the Harmonetta patents, google patents isn't going to work. Y'all will probably need to root around here: at the German patent office www.dpma.de


 
In the meantime, somebody tell me what this is... some Hohner patent for what I think is some weird harmonica microphone. What do I know?
http://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?window=1&space=main&content=treffer&action=pdf&session=c23b66f230da55e637399d364e46ade08d2cf76e66d6&stamp=2421&docid=GB000001117923A-5283899752&Cl=4&Bi=1&Ab=&De=1&Dr=5&Pts=&Pa=&We=&Sr=&Eam=&Cor=&so=asc&sf=vn&firstdoc=2&NrFaxPages=8&pdfpage=1

While looking for Harmonetta-covering patents... I came across the Tastenblasinstruments, which literally translated means "grope and blow instrument"  I got a big kick out of that.


For us nerds, I came across this Kostler document that puts the founding date a year earlier than mentioned in Harmonica Makers of Germany and Austria. The patent lists the founding as 1890.
http://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?window=1&space=main&content=treffer&action=pdf&session=c23b66f230da55e637399d364e46ade08d2cf76e66d6&stamp=23049&docid=DE000001312717U-97559714351&Cl=2&Bi=1&Ab=&De=2&Dr=&Pts=&Pa=&We=&Sr=&Eam=3&Cor=&so=asc&sf=vn&firstdoc=6&NrFaxPages=3&pdfpage=3