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man Patent 15231)

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German Patent 15231

ssued in 1881 to Ernst Leiterd, this appears to be the earliest patent for one of the most popular types of noveltyarmonicas, a harmonica with bells that can be sounded by the player at musically appropriate moments.

rnst Leiterd was based in Klingenthal during the latter half of the 19th century, although his company was betternown for producing accordions than harmonicas. As an aside, I should note that during the late 19th and early 20

entury, there was quite a vogue for adding bells to accordions as well as harmonicas.

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German Patent 15375

Granted to Otto Sack in 1881, this patent shows two designs for harmonicas with two bells and improved strikingmechanisms. I have no information about Herr Sack, beyond the fact that the patent document gives his home as

lagwitz-Leipzig. He seems to have had no other harmonica-related patents granted.

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German Patent 204093

ssued in 1908 to the firm of Andreas Koch, this is for a fascinating invention - the Glockenmundharmonika. This armonica which has no reeds. Instead, each hole leads to a chamber with a small spring-loaded shuttle in it, attacho a hammer which protrudes outside the body of the instrument. Blowing pushes the shuttle and causes the hammtrike a bell towards the back of the instrument; drawing pulls the shuttle back and causes the hammer to strike a bowards the front of the instrument. When the player stops blowing, the springs cause the shuttle to return to a centosition.

he pairs of bells were tuned like the blow and draw reeds of the harmonica and the patent diagram shows annstrument with five holes and ten bells, which would be enough to give a diatonic scale of one octave, with a coupf additional notes. US Patent 887402, issued earlier that same year, shows a version with 22 bells in a staggeredrrangement.
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he US patent named Ernst Koch as the inventor, describing him as a German citizen residing in New Jersey. TheKoch company was Hohner's biggest rival in the late 1800s and early 1900s, finally being bought out by Hohner inate 1920s. Ernst Koch, son of the founder of the company, has been blamed for the downfall of the Koch dynasty.everal lawsuits were issued between the German and American offices and finally Ernst left the harmonica busine

o seek his fortune in real estate, dying shortly afterwards in 1932.

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