Harmonica is a musical instrument of the most easy to play. Only a blow and suck the harmonica will sound pretty good. Harmonica derived from traditional Chinese musical instrument called 'Sheng' which has been used approximately 5000 years ago since the empire Nyu-kwa.
Modern harmonica was found in 1821 by Christian Friedrich Buschmann. A simple wind musical instrument consisting of vibrating plates of metal are arranged in horozontal with poor design and only provides inflatable tone chromatic scale.
Initial design of Buschmann ultimately many imitated and modified for the better. One example is artificial Richter harmonica which is the initial design of a modern harmonica. In 1826 he developed a variation of the harmonica with 10 holes remain and 20 plate vibrating plate with a separation of functions is blown and the exploited. In the end, the tone created by Richter referred to as a ringing tone and a standard diatonic harmonica.
Harmonica instruments business started in 1857 when German craftsman named Matthias Hohner hours to decide to become producers harmonica. With the help of his family, he can produce 650 harmonica that year. Hohner introduced the harmonica to North America in 1862 a move that brings the manufacturer a manufacturer Hohner harmonica number one separately. In 1887 Hohner was producing more than 1 million harmonicas a year. Now, Hohner has manufactured more than 90 different models of harmonica type, tone, and models. Which allows to play a variety of musical styles ranging from pop, blues, rock, country, ska and various others.