| Family: |
Wind, free-reed instrument meaning. |
| How to play: |
The harmonica has metal reeds places in air channels, generally the reed vibrates when the musician blows air into the channels. |
| While the musician blows into each channel, variety notes are produced. |
| First Known Harmonicas: |
The oldest known kind of harmonica is the sheng which originated from China and it was made of bamboo pipes. |
| The Invention of the Harmonica: |
One assumes that it was invented in 1821 by Christian Friedrich Buschmann and it was called Mundäoline. |
