#Melodics piano pro

Others are played like the tenor melodica. Some are designed to be played with both hands at once: the left hand plays the black keys, and the right hand plays the white keys.

Soprano and alto melodicas are higher-pitched and thinner sounding than tenors.

Melodicas with different ranges have slightly different shapes. Melodicas are classified primarily by the range of the instrument. Problems playing this file? See media help. It is also associated with the Inti Raymi festival in Otavalo, Ecuador. It is associated with Jamaican dub and reggae musician Augustus Pablo who popularized it in the 1970s, and more recently with Jon Batiste, who is often seen playing the instrument on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal developed a technique consisting of singing while playing the melodica, resulting in a wide tonal and harmonic palette. The melodica was first used as a serious musical instrument in the 1960s by composers such as Steve Reich, in his piece titled Melodica (1966).

Melodicas range in price from under US$20 for a simple, plastic instrument to several thousand dollars for a rare, custom-made or antique model.

#Melodics piano pro

Hammond's Pro-44 melodion and Pro 24-B bass melodion each have built-in dynamic microphones which can be connected to a PA system or recording device via a single TRS 1/4' jack output. An external microphone can be used to amplify the instrument or record its sound. The harder the player blows, the louder the note. The sound of each vibrating reed reverberates in the shell of the instrument, which may be made of plastic, timber or metal. Pressing a key opens a hole, allowing the player's breath to flow through a single reed. The melodica with the largest range is the Hammond Pro 44, which has a range of 44 notes. In the 21st century, 32 and 37 note keyboards are typical, though instruments may have as few as 13 or as many as 44 keys. Melodica keyboards typically ascend from a low F note. A foot pump can also be used as an alternative to breathing into the instrument.

Mouthpieces vary from short rigid plastic pieces similar to a trumpet or trombone, to long plastic tubes designed to allow the player to hold the keyboard so that the keys can be seen, or to lay the keyboard horizontally on a flat surface for two-handed playing.