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Harmonicas
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Anyone have experience with them? There are a lot of kinds, been meaning to try some out. Tremolo harmonicas sound especially cool:


Whiskey in the jar on tremolo harmonica

They have 2 reeds per note tuned slightly sharper/flatter for a wavering tremolo like effect :strokebeard:


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Don't worry about me, I've got all that I need. And I'm singing my song to the sky

You know how it feels, With the breeze of the sun in your eyes. Not minding that time's passing by

I've got all and more, My smile, just as before. Is all that I carry with me

I talk to myself, I need nobody else. I'm lost and I'm mine, yes I'm free


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: musiclover420]
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I recommend a blues bender. Cheap and nice, perfect first one.


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Your god is dead, and I killed him.

When you’re lost, here I am. Forever with your soul


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: musiclover420]
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I play a bit but I'm not very good.

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Re: Harmonicas [Re: psi] * 1
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I have distant family member that can play the shit out of one.....always have been jealous cos when you hear a pro they really sound cool as shit especially if you like blues.


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: King Klick] * 1
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King Klick said:
I recommend a blues bender. Cheap and nice, perfect first one.


Looks solid but I'm leaning towards a tremolo harmonica, Hohner makes a trem one too though called the echo celeste.

Have any of you heard of chord harmonicas? They are crazy expensive, they cost hundreds/thousands :eek:




Pachelbel's Canon on Suzuki BCH48 Bass Chord harmonica


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Don't worry about me, I've got all that I need. And I'm singing my song to the sky

You know how it feels, With the breeze of the sun in your eyes. Not minding that time's passing by

I've got all and more, My smile, just as before. Is all that I carry with me

I talk to myself, I need nobody else. I'm lost and I'm mine, yes I'm free


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: musiclover420]
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Seems to go against the spirit of a harmonica if ya ask me


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Your god is dead, and I killed him.

When you’re lost, here I am. Forever with your soul


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: King Klick] * 1
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Been playing for going on eight years. Always have one on me. In blues musician lingo, we just call 'em harps.

Started with a Hohner marine band in C, then picked up a Hohner special 20 in D when my first got crushed - now I have about a dozen different models and keys: A, B, Bb, C, D, E, Eb, LF, and G. I also have a Seydel fanfare-s tremolo in C - super full sound and great fun for playing non-blues melodies.

My favorite keys for blues, in no particular order: A, Bb, D, and E

My favourite blues harp: Seydel session steel


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: shivas.wisdom]
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Sonny Terry is my favorite harp player - just check out this shit:



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Re: Harmonicas [Re: shivas.wisdom]
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Of course, shouldn't forget James Cotton for some straight moanin' blues:



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Re: Harmonicas [Re: musiclover420]
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I used to play with a cheap one when i had my Boss RC-50 looper. It was a lot of fun making harmonica beat loops.

Never had an expensive one thou. But the cheap one i had sounded pretty nice.


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: King Klick]
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King Klick said:
Seems to go against the spirit of a harmonica if ya ask me


You mean a chord harmonica? Why?

Chord harmonicas are for orchestra/ensemble playing I believe, apparently some are designed so you can play bass notes over standard harmonica chords :strokebeard:


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Don't worry about me, I've got all that I need. And I'm singing my song to the sky

You know how it feels, With the breeze of the sun in your eyes. Not minding that time's passing by

I've got all and more, My smile, just as before. Is all that I carry with me

I talk to myself, I need nobody else. I'm lost and I'm mine, yes I'm free


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: musiclover420]
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Lee Oskar makes a really nice harmonica. The standard diatonic harmonica is a good place to start. Key of A is my favorite but Key of C is probably easier to start with. You're not really playing the harmonica until you figure out how to master bending.


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IT WAS ALL A DREAM

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Re: Harmonicas [Re: musiclover420]
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musiclover420 said:
King Klick said:
Seems to go against the spirit of a harmonica if ya ask me


You mean a chord harmonica? Why?

Chord harmonicas are for orchestra/ensemble playing I believe, apparently some are designed so you can play bass notes over standard harmonica chords :strokebeard:


Supposed to be a poor man's instrument anyone can play


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Your god is dead, and I killed him.

When you’re lost, here I am. Forever with your soul


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: King Klick]
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King Klick said:
musiclover420 said:
King Klick said:
Seems to go against the spirit of a harmonica if ya ask me


You mean a chord harmonica? Why?

Chord harmonicas are for orchestra/ensemble playing I believe, apparently some are designed so you can play bass notes over standard harmonica chords :strokebeard:


Supposed to be a poor man's instrument anyone can play


Oh yeah I agree, that's why I was surprised they are so expensive. But they are a lot bigger and more complex, pretty much pro orchestra harmonicas. Totally overkill for most people.

It's the same way with other folk instruments like the banjo or mandolin, you can find simple cheap ones as well as crazy fancy/expensive ones.


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Don't worry about me, I've got all that I need. And I'm singing my song to the sky

You know how it feels, With the breeze of the sun in your eyes. Not minding that time's passing by

I've got all and more, My smile, just as before. Is all that I carry with me

I talk to myself, I need nobody else. I'm lost and I'm mine, yes I'm free


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: King Klick] * 1
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James Cotton and the other greats played the simple diatonic harmonica, usually a Marine Band in the key of A. That simple instrument can be amazingly complex in the hands of a master. Its all about mastering bends and overblows to open up its full range.


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IT WAS ALL A DREAM

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Re: Harmonicas [Re: Grey Fox]
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Banjo is so fucking hard to play well. It only makes sense to a layman


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Your god is dead, and I killed him.

When you’re lost, here I am. Forever with your soul


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: King Klick]
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King Klick said:
Banjo is so fucking hard to play well. It only makes sense to a layman


Always wanted to try those banjo finger picks, they seem pretty cool. But yeah it's a weird instrument, I have a cumbus which is a strange Turkish banjo:

https://www.myarmorstore.com/images/product/medium/47-CMBX.jpg

Mine needs to be set up though, and it's a bitch to tune with so many strings. Has a really interesting sound though.


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Don't worry about me, I've got all that I need. And I'm singing my song to the sky

You know how it feels, With the breeze of the sun in your eyes. Not minding that time's passing by

I've got all and more, My smile, just as before. Is all that I carry with me

I talk to myself, I need nobody else. I'm lost and I'm mine, yes I'm free


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: musiclover420] * 3
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Today while busking, someone heard me moaning some blues and then came back to give me a chromatic harmonica - I'm excited for the new musical possibilities this unlocks.

Also, I sure you'll all enjoy this poem:

The Song of the Mouth-Organ
(With apologies to the singer of the "Song of the Banjo".)

I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone;
   I'm beloved by the Legion of the Lost;
I haven't got a "vox humana" tone,
   And a dime or two will satisfy my cost.
I don't attempt your high-falutin' flights;
   I am more or less uncertain on the key;
But I tell you, boys, there's lots and lots of nights
   When you've taken mighty comfort out of me.

I weigh an ounce or two, and I'm so small
   You can pack me in the pocket of your vest;
And when at night so wearily you crawl
   Into your bunk and stretch your limbs to rest,
You take me out and play me soft and low,
   The simple songs that trouble your heartstrings;
The tunes you used to fancy long ago,
   Before you made a rotten mess of things.

Then a dreamy look will come into your eyes,
   And you break off in the middle of a note;
And then, with just the dreariest of sighs,
   You drop me in the pocket of your coat.
But somehow I have bucked you up a bit;
   And, as you turn around and face the wall,
You don't feel quite so spineless and unfit--
   You're not so bad a fellow after all.

Do you recollect the bitter Arctic night;
   Your camp beside the canyon on the trail;
Your tent a tiny square of orange light;
   The moon above consumptive-like and pale;
Your supper cooked, your little stove aglow;
   You tired, but snug and happy as a child?
Then 'twas "Turkey in the Straw" till your lips were nearly raw,
   And you hurled your bold defiance at the Wild.

Do you recollect the flashing, lashing pain;
   The gulf of humid blackness overhead;
The lightning making rapiers of the rain;
   The cattle-horns like candles of the dead
You sitting on your bronco there alone,
   In your slicker, saddle-sore and sick with cold?
Do you think the silent herd did not hear "The Mocking Bird",
   Or relish "Silver Threads among the Gold"?

Do you recollect the wild Magellan coast;
   The head-winds and the icy, roaring seas;
The nights you thought that everything was lost;
   The days you toiled in water to your knees;
The frozen ratlines shrieking in the gale;
   The hissing steeps and gulfs of livid foam:
When you cheered your messmates nine with "Ben Bolt" and "Clementine",
   And "Dixie Land" and "Seeing Nellie Home"?

Let the jammy banjo voice the Younger Son,
   Who waits for his remittance to arrive;
I represent the grimy, gritty one,
   Who sweats his bones to keep himself alive;
Who's up against the real thing from his birth;
   Whose heritage is hard and bitter toil;
I voice the weary, smeary ones of earth,
   The helots of the sea and of the soil.

I'm the Steinway of strange mischief and mischance;
   I'm the Stradivarius of blank defeat;
In the down-world, when the devil leads the dance,
   I am simply and symbolically meet;
I'm the irrepressive spirit of mankind;
   I'm the small boy playing knuckle down with Death;
At the end of all things known, where God's rubbish-heap is thrown,
   I shrill impudent triumph at a breath.

I'm a humble little bit of tin and horn;
   I'm a byword, I'm a plaything, I'm a jest;
The virtuoso looks on me with scorn;
   But there's times when I am better than the best.
Ask the stoker and the sailor of the sea;
   Ask the mucker and the hewer of the pine;
Ask the herder of the plain, ask the gleaner of the grain--
   There's a lowly, loving kingdom--and it's mine.


Source: Ballads of a Cheechako (1909), by Robert Service


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: shivas.wisdom] * 1
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shivas.wisdom said:
Today while busking, someone heard me moaning some blues and then came back to give me a chromatic harmonica - I'm excited for the new musical possibilities this unlocks.



:greenthumb:

Pretty awesome way to compliment someones playing :lol:


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Don't worry about me, I've got all that I need. And I'm singing my song to the sky

You know how it feels, With the breeze of the sun in your eyes. Not minding that time's passing by

I've got all and more, My smile, just as before. Is all that I carry with me

I talk to myself, I need nobody else. I'm lost and I'm mine, yes I'm free


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Re: Harmonicas [Re: musiclover420] * 1
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Yeah, it definitely put a smile on my face. I'm listening to chromatic harmonica players tonight!



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