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Discussions => Other Free Reed Instruments => Topic started by: Amarel on February 22, 2011, 04:54:11 PM
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Hi!
Hope, my English is comprehensible.
I'm asking for an advice about these kinds of keyboard wind instruments (?).
At the moment I play Melodica Hohner 36. I'm satisfied with the sound (before I played Hohner 32 - BIG difference!) but I use it a lot and it needs to be tuned quite often. I think I use it more often than it's build for. Especially because the water doesn't come out easily after playing. I think this is a big part of the problem.
Also it would not be bad to have a louder instrument. I'm playing a lot together with saxophone and tuba in street music theatre. My colleagues somehow know but never exactly hear what I'm actually playing. Sometimes this is good ;D But I'd prefer to be louder.
Do you have experiences you can share with me or suggestions?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Amarel
PS: I'm searching for non-diatonic instruments with piano keyboard instead of buttons.
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Hi Amarel - I play a cheap 37 key melodica, purely for pleasure. But if I were going to get one with real volume I don't there's any doubt that I'd go for the Hammond Melodica as it is a superb instrument! Welcome to the forum and hope you have fun.
:)
AL
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Hi Al,
thank you very much!
I just start discovering all the different "Melodicas", there are so many!!
The Hammond Melodica seems good and doens't cost as much as the Vibrandoneon. I haven't heard of it before, but I even found a shop here in Germany which sells them. I'll try to go there to test the instruments.
Best wishes,
Amarel
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You have probably already found this, but for what the melodica can do, click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesHowardYoung
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I use a Hohner Piano 32, very useful for working out chords and trying partial chords. A flat workspace sometimes is more obvious than one than goes in different directions.
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I still have a little Hohner Alto that I bought many, many years ago for the kids... I use it instead of a full keyboard or melodeon when trying to figure out tunes and chords, etc.
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Hi Amarel
if you're in Germany you could google Jurij Kravets, he plays a CBA and a Vibrandoneon (i think chromatic) from his Gigs it looks like he maybe based somewhere in Franken, try emailing him.
Louise
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You have probably already found this, but for what the melodica can do, click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesHowardYoung
This is absolutely fascinating. I had always considered the melodica as (if not a toy) a serious instrument. To see these being played with such virtuosity is wonderful. I have a lot of listening to do. Thanks for the link.
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You have probably already found this, but for what the melodica can do, click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesHowardYoung
This is absolutely fascinating. I had always considered the melodica as (if not a toy) a serious instrument. To see these being played with such virtuosity is wonderful. I have a lot of listening to do. Thanks for the link.
You're welcome and it is wonderful stuff, isn't it? (:)
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Augustus Pablo was all melodica. He played on a few different instruments, from ex-kindergarten instruments on up to new posh models.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiaekG1Q0UE
Fun stuff around 1:30.
King Tubby meets Rockers Uptown is a great record, but there isn't a bad Rockers album out there. ;D