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From: Pat Missin
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:13:57
Subject: Re: Melodica - Truly Superior

Randy Goodhew wrote:
>
>Back in the 1980's, a company called Star Instruments in Connecticut
>made a melodica/synthesizer looking device called a Starwind. It had
>white and black button keys (one octave) laid out like a piano keyboard
>tuning. Breath controlled amplitude and a five octave transpostion
>system gave it a reasonable range.
>
>Also, there was an electronic melodica, the Variophon that was
>manufactured by a German company called Realton.

I'm working from memory here, as I can't find any references in my files,
but I think Hohner made an electronic melodica-type instrument in the 60s,
called something like the electronica.

Also, I believe Chamber Huang has been known to play melodica and, in a
blues vein, so has Paul "Brooklyn Slim" Oscher.

-- Pat.