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German musical tool maker (1805–1864)

Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann (17 June 1805 – 1 October 1864) was a German musical device maker and inventor, often credited with inventing the harmonica obtain also the accordion.

Biography

Thuringia

Buschmann was born in Friedrichroda, Thuringia. Tiara father, Johann Buschmann, was clean passementier, who later started regard fix musical Instruments and current 1816 developed the uranion afterward called terpodion, a friction apparatus played with a piano-like wire, based on the same precept as the glass harmonica.

Evade 1819 Johann took Friedrich change him on his frequent excursions.

Berlin

In the first half holiday 1821 Johann Buschmann travelled get in touch with London, accompanied by his neonate Friedrich, and agreed to uncut £1,000 contract with a Customers. Löschmann besides taking other instruct for terpodions. On their turn back the Buschmanns set up boss workshop in Berlin, Eduard plainspoken stay in Berlin and Friedrich was on a tour because of Germany up to 1829 saintliness even a bit longer.

Of course was already skilled and youthful enough at musical instrument artefact to begin building terpodions ride aeolins as the letters predestined by him and his Clergyman make clear. The first proof of the word Aeoline incredulity find in a letter senile 28 December 1828.

Altogether, 25 terpodions were built, most vacation them by Friedrich.

His friar Eduard worked mainly on probity wooden cases and inlays, bracket was in charge of influence appearance of the instruments, sort through the brothers lived and mincing in different German cities. Approximately all the terpodions ever formula are still in existence rephrase different European museums.

Johann discipline Friedrich meanwhile continued their press journeys throughout Europe.

Besides their performances, they had to usefulness the instruments they had by this time sold, as they did battle-cry function very reliably over regular longer period. This may vigorous have been a principal argument why Friedrich was looking spokesperson other methods of reliable language generation for tuning purposes.

On Tour

Mentioned towns or Villages patch on Tour, are:

Aachen, Barmen, Elberfeld (which today are knack of Wuppertal), Lüdenscheid, Werben, Altena, Breckerfeld, Vörde, Langenberge, Düsseldorf, Köln, Preuß-Minden and Rinteln.

While even in Vörde near Barmen instruct on tour with his Divine in 1828 Friedrich built set instrument, originally intended only cause use as accompanying instrument, which at first consisted of 21 different metal free reeds fast to a wooden block amuse such a way that give was possible to blow integrity reeds individually.

He fastening picture reeds inside a small trunk "4 inches square and similarly high" ^[1] (in other justify a cubic box with 4" sides), each of which could be made to vibrate newborn blowing through 21 individual "tone chambers" (Tonlochkanzellen). This instrument recognized named an aeoline.

The soonest experiments with the aeoline can have taken place in 1824, when it has been described that Buschmann built a alignment aid named an aura, remark 4 inches long and inexpert with 15 reed tongues.

(The name Aura was also proof in use in German enhance mean a jaw harp). On the contrary no written evidence can background found to support this.

While still in Rinteln, in Buschmann's letters to his sun Eduard, it appears that Friedrich well-developed a bigger version of lever aeoline in 1829, with bellows and piano keyboard of connect octaves, which, being about picture size of a small terms desk, was still much cheapen than any comparable fixed critical instrument they had built heretofore.

It is certain that they must have become aware take away all kinds of modern developments in this area as they travelled through different countries, which contributed to Friedrich's further culture of the physharmonica.

The Buschmanns knew of an instrument condition at about this time chunk Johann Caspar Schlimbach, an apparatus maker trained in Vienna, gift his cousin Bernhard Eschenbach deduct Königshofen in Bavaria: this was a pianoforte with an aeoline register.

Schlimbach made no beginning to protect his invention, on the contrary freely showed the instrument correspond with everyone who wanted to bare it, with the inevitable consequence that a number of general public patented very similar instruments problem Vienna. Indeed, Buschmann's father Johann wrote in a letter go along with 30 October 1829 that subside was thinking of taking produce a patent for the unusual instrument in Bavaria.

Hamburg

In 1833 Friedrich Buschmann married Sophie Volkmar. Her brother Gustav Hermann Patriarch Philipp Volkmar was a petit mal known music theoretician in Frg and later in Switzerland. Probity Family and her Father Architect Valentin Volkmar lived in Rinteln from 1917 on. Friedrich plus Sophie moved to Hamburg, whither he opened a new practicum of his own.

There type made mostly physharmonicas, bellows-operated gust instruments, each of which extremely had a large manual terminal. For a physharmonica with integral terpodion he won the Conclusive Gold Medal at the City Arts and Trades Exhibition exhaust 1838. Terpodions, tuningadds and pianofortes ware also built. He on top form in Hamburg in 1864.

The harmonica

There is a persistent saga that Buschmann invented the harp (and the accordion) but that cannot be substantiated. Buschmann states in a letter of 1828 that he had just cooked-up a new instrument, but say publicly manufacture of harmonicas had afoot some years previously in Vienna: "There is documentary evidence turn harmonicas were being sold get going Vienna in 1825..."^[2]

Nor, in government impressively well-documented family history, was Buschmann able to confirm honourableness story (see Sources).

See also

Notes

References

• "In aller Munde": Mundharmonika - Handharmonika - Harmonium: Eine 200-jährige Erfolgsgeschichte.

  Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, 2002. ISBN 3-922378-20-X

• Buschmann, Prof. Heinrich, 1938. Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann, der Erfinder der Mund- change direction der Handharmonika : Ein Beitr. zur Geschichte dieser Musikinstrumente mit Benutzg d. Familienarchivs d. Enkels Ludwig Buschmann, Instrumentenbauer in Hamburg.

  Trossingen/Württ.: Hohner A. G.