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Soon afterwards, Buschmann also produced the first 'handaeline', a forerunner of the modern accordion, which was improved by Demian, a Viennese, in.
Harmonica History
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Legend has it that the harmonica was invented in the 1820s by a young German man called Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann.
His so-called “Aura” was a free-reed instrument consisting of a series of steel reeds arranged together horizontally in small channels. Early designs were widely imitated, leading to many modifications and advancements: around 1826, a Bohemian instrument maker named Richter created an instrument remarkably similar to modern diatonic harmonicas.
He developed a variation that consisted of ten holes and twenty reeds, with separate blow and draw reed plates mounted on either side of a wooden comb.
Developed when German clockmaker, Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann modified his mouth blown aura or mundaeoline by adding a button.
Most importantly, the way that the notes were arranged was exactly the same as it is today. Richter’s tuning became the standard configuration of what Europeans referred to as the ‘Mundharmonika’ or mouth organ.
Richter (being German) was a very logical and organized musician.
He arranged the notes the way he did for a very specific