Larry Adler London. He became a star in the United Kingdom and the Empire, where, it has been written, harmonica sales increased 20-fold and 300,000 people joined fan clubs.". Adler was one of the first harmonica players to perform major works written for the instrument, often written for him: these include Jean Berger's "Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra "Caribbean"" (1941), Cyril Scott's "Serenade" (harmonica and piano, 1936), Vaughan Williams' "Romance in D-flat" for harmonica, piano and string orchestra; premiered New York, 1952, Milhaud's "Suite Anglais" (Paris, May 28, 1947), Arthur Benjamin's Harmonica Concerto (1953), and Malcolm Arnold's Harmonica Concerto, Op. 46 (1954,
Recorder (musical instrument) Peter Harlan began to manufacture recorders in the 1920s, primarily for education use in the youth movement. Following Harlan’s success, Numerous makers such as Adler and Mollenhauer began commercial production of recorders, fueling an explosion in the instrument’s popularity in Germany. These recorders shared little in common with antiques, with large straight windways, anachronistically pitched consorts, modified fingering systems and other innovations. Nonetheless, the mass production of recorders allowed the instrument to flourish. Indeed, Hindemith's recorder trio for the “Plöner Musiktag” calls for Harlan-type recorders in A-E and D, and Carl Dolmetsch, son of Arnold, was agruably the first virtuoso