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the recorder's cooler cousin, half harmonica and half keyboard, all reggae attitude.
means A handheld free-reed instrument you play by blowing into a mouthpiece while pressing piano-style keys, producing a bright, harmonica-like tone.
from From Greek 'melos,' song or tune — the same root behind 'melody' and 'melodious.' The name is a 20th-century coinage, attached to the instrument popularized by the German maker Hohner in the mid-1900s. The free-reed mechanism inside, though, descends from a much older family that includes the harmonica and the accordion, whose ancestors trace back to reed instruments admired in East Asia.
- reggae royalty
- Augustus Pablo made it dub's signature sound
- breath powered
- keys do nothing without your lungs pushing air
- german roots
- Hohner popularized it in the 1950s
- school staple
- taught to kids worldwide as a starter instrument
- many names
- also called pianica, blow-organ, or hooter
hohner melodica piano 32 — best-selling melodica model since 1950s, plastic keyboard wind instrument with 32 keys
toots and the maytals — reggae band featuring melodica prominently in songs like 'funky kingston' from 1975