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Yup, video and pic different. One in pic has left hand covering first half of C major scale, for two octaves, and the right hand covering the second half for two octaves. Full explanation of key layout here.

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Melodica-Me, glad you like it! Below is a pic of how it’s held. Here’s a page on holding it: https://ergordica.com/how-to-hold-an-ergordica/
I don’t have any videos to show how scales work, but here’s an explanation of the key layout: https://ergordica.com/ergordica-key-layout-explained/

Daren, thanks for that video, definitely some similarities! Particularly the way rocker keys let the sound waves directly out of the reed cavities rather than via a resonating chamber. Some would say this detracts from the sound, but it makes for a much more compact instrument.
No videos yet but there’s some audio files on the home page https://ergordica.com (note I’m an engineer, not a musician!!)

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Hey Daren, I finally got around to working on my idea. It’s called an ergordica. I just posted about it in your general discussion forum, hope you don’t mind (it’s a bit off topic perhaps).

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Some whacky idea. Sadly, it has to be sidelined while I attend to real work that has been piling up…

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Thanks for the info. That is a lot of reeds!

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Hi Daren,

Do you remember how much the set of reeds cost approximately? And did they require much more air to sound?

Thanks for the fast response, and this site!
Sam

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Hi Daren, this is a really interesting project, do you have any updates?
Might I ask where you got those individual reeds from or if you know of any good sources?

Thanks!
Sam

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