[Harp-L] Digital ten hole harmonica!???---TONOVA DIGITAL HARMONICA

[Gary Lehmann]

I spoke with Os about this instrument--although the interface is definitely
a harmonica, it's not designed to replace the free reed instrument, but
rather to open the world of digital music to someone using the blues harp
format.
In other words, MIDI control from a familiar instrument--but not an
electric harp, more of a MIDI breath controller with 20 "keys".
I run into a similar situation with MIDI guitar--that's why I use a double
neck electric with one neck from a Starr Labs Ztar.
Just for grins, here is a video of that setup.
Blue Bossa, harmonica at about 1:30.
https://youtu.be/arX_ZpcZDEo?si=GO0bZ-NcvZVsdPIf

On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM Laurent Vigouroux <
laurent.vigouroux at xxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
>
> That would exactly my point, too.
> It’s not clear from the information I’ve collected if the Tonova “reads”
> bending information directly from its captors (I would guess no, it is
> probably a bit tricky).
>
> If anyone has any information about that I’d be interested
>
> Cheers
>
> laruent
>
>
> *From: *Harp-L <harp-l-bounces at xxxxx> on behalf of Randy Singer <
> randy at xxxxx>
> *Date: *Monday, 29 September 2025 at 15:20
> *To: *Gary Lehmann <gnarlyheman at xxxxx>
> *Cc: *HarpL* <harp-l at xxxxx>, randysinger at xxxxx <
> randysinger at xxxxx>
> *Subject: *Re: [Harp-L] Digital ten hole harmonica!???---TONOVA DIGITAL
> HARMONICA
>
> I don’t want to use any HARMONICA digital that doesn’t allow me to bend
> notes with my mouth. I don’t want to use the button.
>
> I’m old-fashioned that way :-). That’s the pleasure and beauty of playing
> the harmonica is to bend a note with your smile not your finger.!!!!
>
>
> Randy Singer Music
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>
> > On Sep 28, 2025, at 9:54 AM, Gary Lehmann <gnarlyheman at xxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I read the manual, it was helpful.
> > The submission on midi.org was authored by Oz, my predecessor at Suzuki
> USA (he trained Daron Stinton, who moved to sales when I got the gig).
> > I will contact him to see what I can find out.
> > I see this as a low cost way to get into the MIDI harmonica world.
> > Randy, don’t you have a DM48?
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >> On Sep 28, 2025, at 7:45 AM, Chad Nordstrom <chad.nordstrom at xxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> https://midi.org/innovation-award/tonova-digital-harmonica
> >> Tonova Digital Harmonica
> >> midi.org
> >>
> >>
> >>>> On Sep 27, 2025, at 00:30, Randy Singer <randy at xxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Has anyone seen this?
> >>>
> >>> https://tonovamusic.com/
> >>>
> >>> Is this new or am I late to the game??? Lolllll
> >>>
> >>
>