All you want to know on How to Shop and How Safe It is. 1.1 Richter System Harmonicas Features / Position of Notes / How to play the harmonica / Avaiable Models FEATURES These harmonicas are ideally suited made to play blues, country, rock, pop and folk, and related types of music. Each of the 20 notes on a Richter System harmonica is produced by the vibration of a single reed. Richter System harmonicas usually have ten holes each of which contains two reeds, a blow reed and a draw (inhale) reed. A major tonic chord can be produced by blowing three consecutive holes. A dominant seventh chord can be produced on the draw reeds. Thus they can produce music containing both chords and single notes. Each instrument is tuned to a specific major key, and each has a three octave range. Although Richter System harmonicas were originally designed to play only 20 notes, many more notes can be produced by employing the techniques of BENDING, OVERBLOWING, and OVERDRAWING. With these techniques, a harmonica tuned to one particular key can be played in other keys as well. POSITION OF THE NOTES Diatonic Scale HOW TO PLAY YOUR HARMONICA Firmly hold the harmonica between the forefinger and thumb of your left hand. Ensure that the lower pitch notes are at the left end, and the higher pitched notes are the right end. Your right hand should be comfortably cupped over the right end of the harmonica, and over the fingers of your left hand. Mouthpiece: You may use either or both of 2 different techniques to play harmonica. a) Blowing Technique Often described as the kiss, or center-blow, blow or draw only one of the harmonica holes, as shown. Only one note will sound. b) Tongue-blocking technique: Place your harmonica to your lips, blowing 2 or 3 holes. Then position your tongue over the holes on the left side, and support your tongue aganist the mounthpiece, or comb, leaving only one hole open on the right side of your mounth, so that only one note sounds. AVAIABLE MODELS HERING manufactures several models of diatonic, Richter System harmonicas: HERING BLUES: available in all major keys* BLACK BLUES: available in all major keys GOLDEN BLUES: available in all major keys MASTER BLUES: available in all major keys FREE BLUES: available in C, D, E, F, G, A, Bb, and B SUPER 20: available in C. *C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B C, Db, E, Eb, E, F, Fb, G, Gb, A, Ab, A, Bb, B HERING also manufactures the following models of diatonic harmonica suitable for beginners and youngsters: COLEGIAL: straight mouthpiece, key of C GLORIOSA: straight mouthpiece, key of E YARA: curved mouthpiece, key of E ROLLINHA: double model, curved mouthpiece, key of G and D These models do not allow the techniques of OVER BLOWING and OVERDRAWING. The model MASTER SOLO is also a harmonica manufactured for the learning process. The note layout is identical to the note layout of a three octave chromatic harmonica, but without the "chromatic notes". (It has 24 reeds rather than 48 reeds) The Master Solo has a straight mouthpiece, and is available in the key of C. Features / Position of Notes / How to play the harmonica / Avaiable Models Other type of Diatonic Harmonicas: The Double Reed Harmonicas Privacy Policy