The Melodica Piano 26 is another easy to use and beautiful sounding reed instrument made by the German company Hohner*.

The sound is generated by blowing air thru a mouthpiece into fine brass reeds like those used in Harmonicas. This one sounds very rich and warm.

This underrated instruments were used by musicians like UB40, Depeche Mode, The Gorillas, The Hooters, Supertramp and… you too name a few!

We are very happy to get our hands on one of these old instruments in a very good condition. The Piano 26 Melodicas were maybe the best selling Melodicas of that time.

We have recorded this old, plastic and fantastic beauty with four different types of microphones thru well selected preamps after some time consuming experiments.

Overview

Each microphone can be tuned in separately in the master area at the head of the instrument. So you can take advantage of the different characters of the four microphone types and mix your own original pretty red sound until it fits your taste perfectly.

The noise from blowing air into the Melodica was separated from the musical material and made usable thru an extra mixing knob. The same processing we did with the clicks which were produced by pressing the keys on the Melodica. So you can now add/reduce the noise from blowing by turning the noise knob and add/reduce the clicks from the keys by turning the click knob.

Specifications

• 20 Kontakt Instruments
• 321 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
• Four Mics (piezo, condenser, dynamic, stereo)
• 20 sec long notes samples
• 21 sec long noise samples
• long notes and noises were looped carefully
• extra click samples
• Three different playing styles recorded
• 424 MB Filesize
• Formats: Kontakt and WAV