Hohner Polyphonia No.8 Triple Chord Harmonica 1930s VERY RARE
This unusual instrument has a fine range of sounds and
was designed for orchestral use or harmonica ensembles, the Polyphonia no.8 three-deck chord harmonica is a blow-only instrument, and has 12 major, 12 minor and 12 dominant 7th chords, each with a separate bass note, for playing "oom-pa" accompaniment, with the "oom" being the bass note, and the "pa" being the chord. It can also be played with the bass and chord notes together, and without the bass notes.
Between 1932 and 37,
the Hohner logo with the two arms surrounding a circle use to have a 6-pointed star in the center. After 1937 the German government requested that Hohner remove the 6-pointed star from all of it's product logos.
This Polyphonia shows one of the six panels with the star logo (which confirms that it was made before 1937) the other five have no star, so shuold be a transition product, anyway made during the 30s and this is a great value by itself as a collectable product. Moreover is full functional
