The wonderful Samplers will ship direct from Seydel USA. Key: C/G The SEYDEL SAMPLER is a real must have for the ambitious melody-player: One instrument in two keys and three full octaves available. The SAMPLER is the ideal instrument for playing popular melodies, Folk-music and Irish Folk and a real new challenge for all lovers of the "Chromatic Blues Sound"! The slider switches between two keys (C and G). solo-tuning in the keys of C and G three fulll oktaves in two keys*, conveniently swichable with the slider or lockable half-valving, some important bending notes (Bending: technique for lowering the notes) full sound, thanks to the Stainless-Steel reeds for dynamic playing and good tone response corrosion-free German Silver reedplates precision made acrylic comb – very airtight and durable optimized free-moving and air-tight slider-mechanism with innovative locking device for optional fixing of the pressed slider ergonomic mouthpiece with round holes (silver plated) for lip-friendly playing corrosion-free Stainless Steel covers, opened wide at the back for optimized sound projection variable slider setting: if the slider is turned 180° the instrument plays in G (open slider) and C (slider depressed) (default is C-->G after swapping the slider G-->C) - the mouthpiece must be unmounted to switch over the slider. Key: D/A The SEYDEL SAMPLER is a real must have for the ambitious melody-player: One instrument in two keys and three full octaves available. The SAMPLER is the ideal instrument for playing popular melodies, Folk-music and Irish Folk and a real new challenge for all lovers of the "Chromatic Blues Sound"! The slider switches between two keys (D and A). solo-tuning in the keys of D and A three fulll oktaves in two keys*, conveniently swichable with the slider or lockable half-valving, some important bending notes (Bending: technique for lowering the notes) full sound, thanks to the Stainless-Steel reeds for dynamic playing and good tone response corrosion-free German Silver reedplates precision made acrylic comb – very airtight and durable optimized free-moving and air-tight slider-mechanism with innovative locking device for optional fixing of the pressed slider ergonomic mouthpiece with round holes (silver plated) for lip-friendly playing corrosion-free Stainless Steel covers, opened wide at the back for optimized sound projection variable slider setting: if the slider is turned 180° the instrument plays in A (open slider) and D (slider depressed) (default is D-->A after swapping the slider A-->D) - the mouthpiece must be unmounted to switch over the slider. Key: G/D The SEYDEL SAMPLER G|D is a real must have for the ambitious Irish Folk-player: One instrument in two keys and three full octaves available - suited for playing thousands of Irish Folk tunes. The SAMPLER is the ideal instrument for playing popular melodies, Folky-music and Irish Folk and a real new challenge for all lovers of the "Chromatic Blues Sound"! The slider switches between two keys (G and D). solo-tuning in the keys of G and D - suited for playing thousands of Irish Folk, Scottish and other Celtic melodies in the keys of D, G, Am, Em and Bm three full oktaves in two keys*, conveniently swichable with the slider or lockable half-valving, some important bending notes (Bending: technique for lowering the notes) full sound, thanks to the Stainless-Steel reeds for dynamic playing and good tone response corrosion-free German Silver reedplates precision made acrylic comb – very airtight and durable optimized free-moving and air-tight slider-mechanism with innovative locking device for optional fixing of the pressed slider ergonomic mouthpiece with round holes (silver plated) for lip-friendly playing corrosion-free Stainless Steel covers, opened wide at the back for optimized sound projection variable slider setting: if the slider is turned 180° the instrument plays in D (open slider) and G (slider depressed) (default is G-->D after swapping the slider D-->G) - the mouthpiece must be unmounted to switch over the slider. More info from Seydel President Well, it´s actually one instrument, with two keys in it that goes over three octaves. It is actually a category in itself, because it´s NOT a chromatic harmonica ( but actually two diatonic instruments). However, it´s also NOT an octave harmonica or also NOT a tremolo harmonica. Even if it looks like a chromatic harmonica (because it has obviously a slider) we do NOT list is under chromatic harmonicas in order to not confuse players. But we do also not present is as octave harmonica because it isn´t an octave harmonica either. The idea to make the SAMPLE came after we had discontinued the so called double-sided tremolo harmonica that we used to offer ( Mountain Harp or Bergzauber). Old players know those from the past and liked the idea to have two harmonicas in one instrument. However, those models were tremolo harmonicas an that´s why those older players would look for such kind of harmonicas in the tremolo category. But as I mentioned, it is not a tremolo harmonica, but it would need a new category for the SAMPLER. Therefore we present is as specialty. We have the harmonica out on the market for more than 10 years already and it never reached a big popularity and is not well known. The market seems to be very small , so we do not really push it. It´s an instrument for specialists who look for something like this.
