Patent ID: 8431807

Claim:
A self-contained, harmonica-playing, music education device that displays for a student-user immediately upon viewing said device, the location and music symbols for all of the predetermined fixed music pitches which can be produced on the device, said predetermined fixed music pitches constituting the device's primary music scale, said device comprising: (a.) a harmonica including a body and divider structure with a set of top and bottom reed plates, therebetween providing a series of adjacent parallel cavities between the said reed plates and, mounted on said reed plates are a plurality of reeds, each of which is responsive to the passage of air normally to produce an audible musical note of a certain predetermined pitch, a pair of said reeds being in each of said cavities such that one of each cavity placed reeds is a Blow reed responsive to blowing air through said cavity to produce a Blow note and the other of the pair of associated reeds is a Draw reed responsive to drawing air through said cavity to produce a Draw note, and, (b.) a set of harmonica coverplates with top and bottom outer faces; one upper (top) coverplate covering the said harmonica's upper reed plate and the other lower (bottom) coverplate covering the harmonicas lower reed plate, and, (c.) a first set of numeric music and air direction indicia with: (i.) the portion of said set of indicia corresponding to the pitches of the Blow reeds, displayed on one of said cover plates, directly overtop or underneath their corresponding note cavities, and, (ii.) the other portion of said set of indicia corresponding to the pitches of the Draw reeds, displayed on the other one of said cover plates, directly overtop or underneath their corresponding note cavities.