US2461806A - Chromatic harmonicon - Google Patents

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US2461806A
US2461806A US649226A US64922646A US2461806A US 2461806 A US2461806 A US 2461806A US 649226 A US649226 A US 649226A US 64922646 A US64922646 A US 64922646A US 2461806 A US2461806 A US 2461806A
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10D—STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G10D7/00—General design of wind musical instruments
    • G10D7/12—Free-reed wind instruments
    • G10D7/14—Mouth-organs
    • G10D7/15—Mouth-organs with movable mouthpiece
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    • G10D—STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G10D7/00—General design of wind musical instruments
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  • the subject matter of this invention is a harmonicon of the known kind wherein small reed pipes are arranged within a generally rectangular casing which is slid on ones lips and sounded by onesbreath like a panpipe.
  • a chromatic harmonicon most frequently-comprises two rows of parallel holes, one for the whole steps and the other for the half steps; consequently, it is not possible on such an instrument to sound chromatic chords or to play rapid passages, and one must satisfy ones self with playing comparatively simple melodies.
  • This invention is concerned with a harmonicon of usual size although it allows to obtain the same chromatic chords as an accordion and to play the most elaborate variations; the keyboard of this harmonicon can be designed for various fingering systems.
  • each duct leading to a reed plate is controlled by a valve whose shaft is secured to a push or key actuated by the performer against the action of a return spring.
  • the air exhaled into an air chamber provided with bailies flows through the ducts at every moment, said ducts have been set free by the lifting of the related valves and actuates the vibratory tongues providing the reeds.
  • a further feature of this harmonicon resides in the possibility, by closing and opening the apertures in the ornamental casings with ones hand, to obtain the same muting efiect as by opening and closing the mouth of such brass instruments as trombones, trumpets and the like.
  • the said effect is secured by means of a pair of shutters actuated by a mechanism arranged Within easy reach of the player.
  • Figures 2 to 5 inclusively are enlarged views of the musical instrument shown in Figure 1.
  • Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on line. II-II in Fig. 1.
  • Figure 3 is asectional viewtaken on line III-J11 in Fig. 1.
  • Figure 4 is'an end view of the instrument with its end cheek removed, looking as shown in IV-IV in Fig. 1.
  • Figure 5 is a side elevational view of the instrument with most of its casing broken away.
  • the harmonicon consists primarily of a blocki,-e.-g.1made of wood, drilled or otherwise formed with a series of verticalcylindrical ducts 2'to receive valve shaftss and in one side of which slits l are milled which correspond to the valves.
  • Said block i is flankedby a pair of end plates or-cheeks-i5, E'braced by cover plates 7 that can be curved and decorated as desired.
  • said cover plates 1 fit at either end thereof-in slots'cutin' said'cheeks 5, 5 or are held by lugs ;8-on'the latter; said checks are secured to the block 1 by screws removable.
  • an air chamber I3 provided with an inside baflie l4 and with a blow-off orifice 37; a mouthpiece I5 is secured to one side of said chamber.
  • Square apertures I 8 are punched in plate [0 in alignment with sockets 20 provided in the block I and designed to receive shaft heads l9 '9 which make same easily of similarly shaped section by which they are prevented from rotating. Keys H are screwed on the shaft heads :9.
  • a felt or rubber cushion 33 is laid on the bottom of each socket 213 which provides the extension of a corresponding duct 2 for the purpose of absorbing the shock of the head [9 on said bottom, and a notch 2! is cut in each head to receive one end of a spring strip or the like 22 secured within the slit l6 and by which the related valve is returned instantaneously to its closed position.
  • each duct Communicating with the said holes 26 are side ducts t which open at the sides of block 1 adjacent to the reed plates 2'1; vertical elongated apertures 23 are cut in the latter, which are closed by vibratory tongues 29, 29a providing the sound reeds; each duct leads to two tongues, of which the one 29 is designed to be sounded by inhaling and the other 29a by exhaling; each aperture 28 is provided at the correct side thereof with a thin leather packing 39 by which the joint is made fluid-tight.
  • each valve 3 is related with one duct 4 and two reeds 29, 2911, so that the player can sound the same sound by either exhaling or inhaling.
  • Each reed plate 21 has a flap 3
  • the flaps lay themselves upon the ornamental cover plates and constitute the so-called wawah device.
  • a chromatic mouth organ of the reed type comprising a substantially trapezoidal elongated block provided with three series of parallel perforations and with a corresponding number of grooves along one of the sides and the lower part ofsaid block and communicating with the corresponding perforations, valves including stems guided in said perforations, control keys for said stems on the ends thereof projecting in a given direction and valve heads at the opposite ends of stems, a plate secured to the; face of the block corresponding to the location of the valve heads and provided with perforations registering with the block perforations, resilient cushions inserted between the outside of the plate and the valve heads, an air chamber fitted on the outside of the plate over the valve heads, sound plates applied laterally on the block to either side thereof and couples of reeds carried thereby and registering with the corresponding slots.
  • a chromatic mouth organ of the reed type comprising a substantially trapezoidal elongated block provided with three series of parallel perforations and with a corresponding number of grooves along one of the sides and the lower part of said block and communicating with the corresponding perforations, valves including stems guided in, said perforations, control keys for said stems on the ends thereof projecting in a given direction and valve heads at the opposite ends of stems, a plate secured to the face of the block corresponding to the location of the valve heads and provided with perforations registering with the block perforations, resilient cushions inserted between the outside of the plate and the valve heads, an air chamber fitted on the outside of the plate over the valve heads, sound plates applied laterally on the block to either side thereof and couples of reeds carried thereby and registering with the corresponding slots flaps arranged to either side of the block in front of the location of the reeds, springs urg-- ing said flaps outwardly into organ closing posi tion and means operated by the player

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US2701498A (en) * 1949-12-21 1955-02-08 Koch Siegfried Keyboard for musical instruments
US2827818A (en) * 1947-11-05 1958-03-25 Bibus Hans Chromatic mouthorgan
US3015980A (en) * 1959-09-04 1962-01-09 Hohner Inc M Wind instrument
US4083287A (en) * 1975-05-01 1978-04-11 Yoshiro Suzuki Wind instrument
FR2869148A1 (fr) * 2004-04-19 2005-10-21 Marcel Dreux Instrument de musique a vent

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FR3017980B1 (fr) * 2014-02-24 2016-02-12 Gino Boccabella Instrument de musique a vent a anches libres et a touches
FR3068167B1 (fr) * 2017-06-26 2022-01-28 Philippe Tchumak Instrument de musique a vent a anches libres

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US708805A (en) * 1902-02-24 1902-09-09 Robert Field Mouth-organ.
US894778A (en) * 1908-02-18 1908-07-28 Hans Hohner Mouth-accordion.
US894437A (en) * 1908-02-18 1908-07-28 Hans Hohner Mouth-accordion.
US1698958A (en) * 1927-12-12 1929-01-15 Miessner William Otto Musical instrument

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US708805A (en) * 1902-02-24 1902-09-09 Robert Field Mouth-organ.
US894778A (en) * 1908-02-18 1908-07-28 Hans Hohner Mouth-accordion.
US894437A (en) * 1908-02-18 1908-07-28 Hans Hohner Mouth-accordion.
US1698958A (en) * 1927-12-12 1929-01-15 Miessner William Otto Musical instrument

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2827818A (en) * 1947-11-05 1958-03-25 Bibus Hans Chromatic mouthorgan
US2701498A (en) * 1949-12-21 1955-02-08 Koch Siegfried Keyboard for musical instruments
US3015980A (en) * 1959-09-04 1962-01-09 Hohner Inc M Wind instrument
US4083287A (en) * 1975-05-01 1978-04-11 Yoshiro Suzuki Wind instrument
FR2869148A1 (fr) * 2004-04-19 2005-10-21 Marcel Dreux Instrument de musique a vent

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