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PHYSHARMONICA

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 548 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHYSHARMONICA , a See also:

keyboard See also:instrument fitted with See also:free-reeds, a See also:kind of See also:harmonium much used in See also:Germany. The physharmonica resembles a small harmonium, but is differentiated from it by having no stops; being without percussion See also:action, it does not speak readily or clearly. As in the harmonium, the See also:bellows are worked by the feet by an alternate See also:movement, which also affords a means of varying the dynamic force of the See also:tone according as more or less energetic pedalling increases or decreases the pressure of the See also:wind See also:supply. The physharmonica was invented in 1818 by Anton Hackel, of See also:Vienna; in the See also:original instrument the bellows were placed right and See also:left immediately under the shallow wind-See also:chest, and were worked by means of pedals connected by stout See also:wire. A'specimen, having a See also:compass of four octaves and a very sweet tone, is preserved in the collection of See also:Paul de Wit, formerly in See also:Leipzig, now transferred to See also:Cologne. (K.

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