[Mysha]

Hi,

I think I saw someone demonstrating on Youtube that he used a (key) cord to hang his melodica from, from the grip. That made both hands available for playing. (More difficult where there’s more of a ridge on the left side, I guess.)

I tried this with the Hohner 36 I bought last week, and in itself this works. I’d probably would need a slightly more customisable cord, as I needed to bridge a 1cm gap, and would probably prefer not to have the melodica flat against my breast. But the concept seems sound.

Bye
Mysha

[Mysha]

Hi,

I’ve been wondering about that: Would the length of the tube influence play?

Bye
Mysha

[Mysha]

Hi,

Hohner sell replacement parts, and the airboard flexible tubes are no exception. Since it’s possible to take the tubes apart link by link, it should be possible to add any number of links together, €1,- per link. (For some reason, though they sold black flexible tubes on certain models, they don’t seem to add them as replacement parts.)

I wonder whether there are limits to the size, though: Intuitively, I would say more length would ask more strength, but I don’t know whether that’s truly the case. Has anyone put them through the test? I can imagine a musician playing inside a tube, for effect, but that might be impossible to play.

On the other hand, I believe the airboards can also take a tube for a straight type. (I’ve not seen any indication that the straight models take airboard tubes, but it may just be because of it being an unintended use.)

Bye
Mysha

[Mysha]

So, it look like the editing is now fine. No duplicate in sight.
So, who is going to change the 404 back into a contact form?

Mysha

[Mysha]

Unfortunately, that form is now a 404 page instead.
That’s not what I was reporting about originally, but now that I’m here I’ll leave of the end of

… to see if I can edit it. Now let’s see if this resulted in a duplicate?

Mysha

[Mysha]

Last year, I asked Hohner about melodicas for the previous generation. The Airboard Rasta one (check out the tube segments) etc. were advertised as the Melodicas for the new generation, or fluff like that, and I wanted to make the point I just wanted the solid version, not the flavour of the day.

One of the items in the exchange was that their Performer 37 wasn’t limited to white tubes, but they sold black tubes for it as well. Of course, that leads to the Soprano and Alto that white and black mouthpieces exist for. Ultimately, you’d have tubes of differing colour, of selectable length, with a standard connector going to a mouthpiece of your choice, and at the other end, again a standard connector, here connecting to the instrument-connector for the specific instrument you are playing. (More complex stuff is possible.)

Indeed, it all looks doable, though the best way for the connectors might require some testing. There may not be a market anyway, though.

[Mysha]

So far, I’ve assumed that they ended with these plastics, with the logo on the front. Before that, they were using green boxes, some time after the Altos were added; the logo was on the back on those. Before that, there was no colour-coding, with the Soprano having a red box. Going back even further, there was not even a “Soprano” on the box.

The Soprano that doesn’t show a well-shaped mouth-piece really doesn’t have a mouth-piece at all.

[Mysha]

Melodicas Hohner Soprano and Alto are narrow enough to be played left-handed, and they actually play where your attention is.

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