Description
The Hohner Marine Band 1896 Classic Harmonica offers musicians a deeply authentic, tactile connection to the roots of traditional blues. Built with a traditional pearwood comb, this legendary instrument swells slightly with moisture, creating a uniquely tight seal that responds instantly to intense breath pressure.
When you dig into heavy bends and raspy chords, you can physically feel the wood resonating against your lips, delivering a throaty, saturated tone that synthetic combs simply cannot replicate. The classic nailed construction ensures raw acoustic power, translating your nuanced articulations into the signature wailing sound that defined a century of music.
Features
- Pearwood comb
- Arched stainless steel covers with side vents, nailed
- 20 Classic reeds, 0.9 mm brass reed plates, mounted with nails
- Single lacquered pearwood comb
- Traditional HOHNER tuning
- Handmade
Hohner is mainly characterized by innovation and constant improvement of the existing, established product lines.
In order to be able to offer the true “”Vintage Sound””, Hohner invested in extremely precise tools to minimize air loss and ensure a quicker response and bigger volume. The result is our exclusive “”Classic”” or “”””Handmade”” line. These diatonic top models are exclusively handmade.
When Jacob HOHNER registered his new harmonica design at the US Patent Office on January 30th, 1896, he can scarcely have foreseen the impact it was to have on popular music. Conceived as a simple instrument for folk songs, the Marine Band went on to play a vital role in the development not only of the blues, but also of modern folk, rock and pop music – a process which still continues today!
The Marine Band was what truly made the harmonica the people‘s instrument, played in every conceivable location from the back porch to the concert stages of the world, featured in countless hits and film soundtracks, immortalized in literature. This amazing little instrument has shaped the way most people perceive the harmonica today! “