Improvements in or relating to Mouth-harmonicons.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar.,
1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Mouth-harmonicons.
I, ANTON RICHARD BREINL, Manufacturer, of Graslitz, in the Kingdom of
Bohemia, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a mouth-organ or harmonicon for school use, wherewith,
by the aid of a trumpet or bell-mouth, admirable tremolo musical effects may be
produced; by holding the hand in front of the trumpet or bell-mouth and setting
it in rapid motion.
In a sheet metal vessel or case is enclosed an ordinary mouth-harmonicon and
secured to the case is a trumpet or bell-mouth. By blowing into, or sucking or
drawing air through, the musical orifices, with the assistance of a sheet of music-
paper on which, in needful order, the openings are notated which are to be blown
or inhaled through to produce the requisite sounds, one can render any suitable and
appropriate music or score.
By placing the hand in front of the trumpet or bell-mouth and intermittently
pressing it close and removing it therefore, exquisite tremolo effects may be
imparted to the music.
Dated this 15th day of June 1895.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, ANTON RICHARD BREINL, Manufacturer, of Graslitz, in the Kingdom of
Bohemia, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention relates to a mouth-organ or harmonicon for school use, wherewith,
by the aid of a trumpet or bell-mouth, admirable "swell" or tremolo musical
effects may be produced; by holding the hand in front of the trumpet or bell-
mouth and setting it in rapid motion when the instrument is sounded.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a front elevation,.
Figure 2 a plan, and
Figure 3 a sectional plan on the line x-x of Figure 1, of a school-mouth-organ
or harmonicon, according to this invention.
In a sheet metal vessel or case A is enclosed an ordinary mouth-harmonicon B
and secured to the case is a trumpet or bell-mouth C. By blowing into, or sucking
or drawing air through, the orifices a (which are made in the outer casing exactly
opposite similar openings in the harmonicon B) with the guidance of a sheet of
music-paper on which the openings are noted in the order and manner in which
they are individually to be used one can render music as desired.
By placing the hand in front of the trumpet or bell-mouth C and intermittently

page_text: pressing it close and removing it therefrom a pleasing tremolo or "swell " effect
may be imparted to the music.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A mouth-harmonicon characterised by a trumpet or bell-mouth such as C secured
to a casing such as A wherein is fixed an ordinary harmonicon, substantially as
and for the purpose described.
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CORD BARu uay
1090.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.