Virtual Harmonica

sayunara dev

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About this game

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica include diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions. A harmonica is played by using the mouth (lips and tongue) to direct air into or out of one (or more) holes along a mouthpiece. Behind each hole is a chamber containing at least one reed. The most common is the diatonic Richter-tuned with ten air passages and twenty reeds, often called the blues harp. A harmonica reed is a flat, elongated spring typically made of brass, stainless steel, or bronze, which is secured at one end over a slot that serves as an airway. When the free end is made to vibrate by the player's air, it alternately blocks and unblocks the airway to produce sound.

Reeds are tuned to individual pitches. Tuning may involve changing a reed’s length, the weight near its free end, or the stiffness near its fixed end. Longer, heavier, and springier reeds produce deeper, lower sounds; shorter, lighter, and stiffer reeds make higher-pitched sounds. If, as on most modern harmonicas, a reed is affixed above or below its slot rather than in the plane of the slot, it responds more easily to air flowing in the direction that initially would push it into the slot, i.e., as a closing reed. This difference in response to air direction makes it possible to include both a blow reed and a draw reed in the same air chamber and to play them separately without relying on flaps of plastic or leather (valves, wind-savers) to block the nonplaying reed.

Ratings and reviews

Great app. I am trying to learn how to play a real harmonica, but I am not very gifted. Even when I can hum a song, I have hard time in the middle of a song because focusing on difficult note combinations wipes the tune out of my brain. With with app, I can practice difficult combinations (on my phone) sufficiently to make the tune stick in my brain long enough to be able to play with the real harmonica.

This app literally does nothing. Except, of course, for make a bunch of ads pop up on your screen. All I wanted was something to work out songs without disturbing anyone(headphones), but all it has is a vaguely harmonica shaped picture that doesn't let you do anything.

Good function but the sound is not a harmonica sound