TELEPHONE HARP CONCERT. Sound Waves Brought Two Miles, and Heard in Union Hall.

Not a large but a very appreciative live audience greeted Mr. Frederick Allen Gower on Wednesday evening, in Union Hall, at his Illustrated lecture and concert on the newly invented instrument, the Telephone Harp. Pearl street, Boston, was called, and Mr. Mathews was asked to play upon the telephone harp, which is an instrument consisting of four octaves of thin steel tongues, set in a steel frame, like a mouth harmonica. Under each tongue is a hammer operated like a telegraphic or pianoforte key. When the keys are played upon, the hammers press the tongues upward, bringing them in connection with a metallic point like that of any telegraphic instrument. When these points are touched by the vibrating tongues, the circuit is opened, the musical note is transmitted over the wire, and repeated at the other end by the telephone. A battery passed electricity through what is termed a Geitler tube, resembling the letter U, and containing hydrogen gas ; and as the notes were played upon the telephonic harp in Boston, the sound waves or vibrations of music corresponded exactly with the flashes of light of various colors, which were thus given out. The hall was darkened of course, during this successful experiment, which the audience unanimously applauded as a most marked and triumphant success of scientific discovery and practical application. A few more remarks were made by Mr. Gower, showing the present commercial success of the telephone, no less than 6,000 being now in use in the United States. Cambridge Chronicle — 26 January 1878

Novel Harmonica Performance from Prof. Goodwall Merck

Prof. G. Goodwall Merck, introduced his musical novelties. He plays the violin, guitar, banjo and harmonica, finely; and also performs the difficult act of playing upon the harmonica, "guitar, drums, cymbals, triangle and bells, at one and the same time, giving a very good imitation of a band of music. Cambridge Chronicle — 27 February 1875

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A Promise of First-Rate Entertainment.

On Saturday evening, a duet will be performed by "Professor" T. P. Ryder. on the great organ, and " Professor" Wallach on the "Mouth Harmonica." Subsequently, Mr. patrick will perform a solo on the Mouth Discordica. Altogether, this is high art. The New Orleans crescent. — 6 January 1869

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Mr. Shattuck Receives Triple Encore for his Harmonica Efforts!

Royal Arch Lodge gave an entertainment and festival, Tuesday evening, in Pythian Hall. A decided novelty and feature of the evening was Mr. B. E. Shattuck on the harmonica. The gentleman's efforts were so highly appreciated that he received three hearty encores. Cambridge Chronicle — 22 June 1878

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Hohner Unsere Lieblinge 32 Aug 16, 2019 13:02:25 GMT

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Post by Hohner enthusiast on Aug 16, 2019 13:02:25 GMT

Hi fellow folk harmonica enthusiasts,

I am considering buying the classic Unsere Lieblinge octave harmonica from Hohner. However, I am unsure of its tuning. According to Hohner’s official tuning chart, their 8-hole (32) octave and tremolo harmonicas are tuned in this way: www.hohner.de/fileadmin/cat/index.html?catalog=Harmonicas#page_58

The tuning seems both strange to me and it differs widely from the 10 (40) and 12-hole (42) octave and tremolo harmonicas. Could it be a printing error? Anyone here who owns one or more versions of the Unsere Lieblinge harmonica who can tell me the correct tuning?

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Hohner Unsere Lieblinge 32 Aug 16, 2019 17:46:22 GMT

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Post by Rex on Aug 16, 2019 17:46:22 GMT

That looks like a printing error to me. It appears that they used the blow notes from a C harp and some draw notes from a G harp. If you look farther down in those diagrams you see the 32 G octave listed and it seems somebody cut and pasted the notes into the C diagram. We recently had a thread here about the Hohner Goliath. I posted some Hohner tremolo diagrams. I believe those are correct for the octave also. I have only owned one octave harp. It was a Seydel Concerto. After a few years I decided octaves were not my thing so I sold it. It was Richter tuned. All Hohner octave harps I have seen were Richter tuned or solo tuned. All Seydel octave harps I have seen were Richter tuned or solo tuned for 2 octaves and then Richter tuned for the high octave (the new Club is that way). I have never seen a note arrangement like the one you linked to.

In my experience the C octave harp uses standard C harp reeds plus low C reeds. The G octave does the opposite. It uses standard G harp reeds plus high G reeds. So G octave harps sound higher than C octave harps. I didn't like playing melody alone on the octave. The octave I had was a fantastic chording machine. It was just intonation. When playing melody plus chords it was nice but still wasn't the sound I was aiming for. If you like chugging chords to a cajun rhythm then you should love the octave. It sounds like a cajun accordion to me.

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