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Thread #110424   Message #2316457
Posted By: GUEST,The Mole catcher's unplugged Apprentice
15-Apr-08 - 02:28 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
I'm not going to argue with you...

here's another source for information regarding Wheatstone

Charles Wheatstone also considered the action of the 'Mundharmonika', a recently developed German mouth organ made of an arrangement of various jew's harp tongues. Undoubtedly, this early work presaged the invention of the symphonium and the concertina, in which the steel 'tongues', 'springs' or free reeds were to be set into motion, and sustained in such motion by the breath and by bellows respectively.

Sourced from Here

Charlotte R