Subject: RE: ukelele to replace recorder
From: Captain Birdseye - PM
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 12:17 PM

"piers .there are diatonic harmoincas that have the missing note,there is one called a [melody maker] lee oskar, [...]"

I just took a look at this. Very clever. G major and C Lydian. However, it doesn't really solve my problem, since the lower and upper octaves are still incomplete.

I don't know why someone just can't make a twelve-hole harmonica with three complete octaves. Hohner does make one, the Marine Band soloist, but it's only available in C.

Is there nobody else who wants a harmonica like this? Is the rest of the world really satisfied with incomplete octaves?!

What I really want is a chromatic harmonica that will fit in a rack and that either doesn't require a slide or with a slide that can be operated by a foot pedal or flaring one's nostrils or otherwise without using one's hands.

Hohner is really missing a trick; I'm sure they'd sell like hotcakes.