Re: [Harp-L] Separate blow & draw holes

[Larry Marks <larry.marks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

However, do include diatonics modified with Winslow Yerxa's miraculous comb.

  -LM

Jonathan Ross wrote:
> There are a few types of harmonicas with separate blow and draw holes 
> for each reed.  Most of these are derived from the Wiener or Viennese 
> layout commonly found in tremolo harmonicas.  These include both the 
> double reed octave and tremolo Wiener harps proper, as well as the 
> single reed half-Wiener models and the various Asian double-reed 
> harmonica types as well as the "Single" type of single-reed harmonica 
> commonly used in Japanese music education.  There are even chromatic 
> harmonicas with one reed per hole opening, including the slideless 
> Tombo S-50 and the slidered Tombo Unica Formal.
>
> However, these do _not_ include Knittlinger harmonicas, which have 
> both a blow and a draw reed mounted on the same reed-plate and sharing 
> both chamber and mouthpiece hole.