The Blues Harmonica: The instruments: The harmonica family

The harmonica family



Picture from Apollo's Axes

An attempt to make a harmonica family tree.

Musical instruments classification is not an exact science, so don't take this as the one and only absolute truth. Some experts may classify the instruments differently, some may include other instruments in the family, some may use other criteria to define different harmonica types.

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This page is part of a major - and by no means finished - instrument presentation project involving most of my web sites. Things may still be a bit messy every now and then and there may still be important parts missing.




Woodwind instruments
        Free reed instruments
            Harmonica
                Diatonic harmonica
                    Richter harmonica
                    Double reed harmonica
                    Tremolo harmonica
                    Octave harmonica
                Chromatic harmonica

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This particular page was created 17/05/2005 and last updated 30/07/2005
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