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Sadly, the early history of Western free reed instruments is somewhat cloudy, but if we are defining the harmonica as a mouth-blown free reed instrument where the notes of the scale are selected by the player's mouth, rather than fingers, the usual answer to this question is that it was invented by sixteen year old Christian Buschmann in 1821.
Professional Harmonicas (ranging in cost from $20 to $100). I consider every harmonica on the below list to be a solid professional instrument. I have rated the harmonicas on the basis of how hard it will be for an intermediate level harmonica player to learn to bend the first six draw notes.