Physharmonica
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Harmonium
A harmonium is a free-standing keyboard instrument similar to a reed organ. Sound is produced by air being blown through sets of free reeds, resulting in a sound similar to that of an accordion...
much used in Germany
Germany
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. It resembles a small harmonium, but is differentiated from it by having no stops; being without percussion action, it does not speak readily or clearly. As in the harmonium, the bellows are worked by the feet by an alternate movement, which also affords a means of varying the dynamic force of the tone according as more or less energetic pedalling increases or decreases the pressure of the wind supply. The physharmonica was invented in 1818 by Anton Haeckl
Anton Haeckl
Anton Haeckl was a musical instrument builder in Vienna, who built the first physharmonica in 1818. Two of his instruments from 1825 can be seen in the Vienna Technical Museum....
, of Vienna; in the original instrument the bellows were placed right and left immediately under the shallow wind-chest, and were worked by means of pedals connected by stout wire.
A Patent for Improvements to this type of Instrument ware granted by a Patent to Anton Reinlein
Anton Reinlein
Georg Anton Reinlein was a musical clock maker in Vienna.A patent was granted to him in the year of 1824 for improving of the Hand harmonica .The Instrument had free reeds of Chinese manner and a bellows that war hand operated.- Patent :...
1824.
Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann
Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann
Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann was a German musical instrument maker, often credited with inventing the harmonica and sometimes the accordion.-Thuringia:Buschmann was born in Friedrichroda, Thuringia...
also did build similar Instruments et least by the Year 1828.
And the ware others who also did produce very early such instruments in German speaking regions of Europe.
Johann Caspar Schlimbach with Bernhard Eschenbach, Carl Friedrich Voit in Schweinfurt
Schweinfurt
Schweinfurt is a city in the Lower Franconia region of Bavaria in Germany on the right bank of the canalized Main, which is here spanned by several bridges, 27 km northeast of Würzburg.- History :...
and Friedrich Sturm in Stuhl.