Seydel Sampler

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Dear harmonica player!

Thank you for your interest in the Seydel SAMPLER. Whatever your musical genre, this harmonica combines the features and playability with which you are already familiar, so you can start playing right away. Instead of a single harp, you now hold two harmonicas in your hands, opening opportunities previously unavailable in a single instrument.

This short workshop is designed to help you understand this unique instrument and how you can explore your musical creativity by playing it!
We wish you all the best as you explore musically with the Seydel SAMPLER!

The Seydel Team

What makes the SAMPLER a unique instrument?

The SAMPLER combines the ease of playability of the chromatic harmonica with the advantage of a double-sided harmonica, allowing you to play in C-Major or G-Major (D-Minor or A-Minoor in third position). The solo-tuning is ideal for playing melodies using all notes of the major scale over a full three-octave range. Combining pure melody with full, rich chords is now easily accomplished with the SAMPLER.

When the slider is held in, you are playing in the key of G. When you release the slider, you are playing in the key of C on the very same instrument! This allows you to play pieces in G with the necessary chords (Tonic G / Subdominant C / Dominant D - see detailed explanation about the dominant chord below) just as with our double-sided models like the Seydel Mountain Harp. Melodies in the key of G (E-Minor), C (A-Minor) are easily played on the same instrument by use of the slider making the change between keys instant!