Mouth organ lessons - history and songs

[Nanoose]

Mouth organs have been around since 1821 and they come in all kinds of types and sizes .They have been part of many types of music from – country to glam.
Month organs have been part of a lot of history around the world too so I thought I would start a thread all about mouth organs or harmonicas

No body does a chromatice harmonica better then the guy in this video

[Nanoose]

The harmonica is based on an ancient instrument, the sheng which is one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments. The instrument existed as far back as 3,000 years ago.

The origins of the harmonica are obscure, but it seems that the harmonica, as we know it today, appeared first in Germany (1821)

The term harmonica was actually coined by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) in 1761 to refer to his invention, the glass harmonica

Nov 4, 1928 - Abraham Lincoln played a mouth organ, even using if as a "one man band" during his famous political debate; with Stephen. Douglas.

[Nanoose]

How to play rock a billy




How to bend notes on a harmonica

[Rose21]

Very interesting facts Nanoose.
The only mouth organs I like is the flute and the saxophone.

[ECO]

Some say that American slaves started "The Blues" while playing them. I use to be able to play growing up and then went without touching one until 5-6 years ago in Washington DC. While attending a business leadership class an instructor handed them out and taught everyone to play as a crowd......a crowd of 200 or so uptight white business owners. To this day I don't have a clue why we spent a couple hours playing them.

[Wahoo]

Wahoo's made it thru a lot of ruff spots over the years, playing The Blues on his Hohner Goliath harmonica.

[ECO]

Lol, at least you are not wearing your reindeer sweater.

[Wahoo]

Keep it up, Boston boy, and I'll be posting my "When I woke up this mawnin'..." Blues lyrics in the JAB Poetry section!

[Rose21]

LOL! Wahoo I can feel your pain.

[Rose21]

Lol, at least you are not wearing your reindeer sweater.

ECO, you don't like Wahoo reindeer sweater?

[ECO]

It looks like something battyboys wear when they play little reindeer games. Then again since he fought for our country so I can't bring myself to talk poorly about the sweater that he stole from a homeless person.

[Wahoo]

Lol, at least you are not wearing your reindeer sweater.

Well, you got to admit that my Mayan Gods T-shirt (even in that grainy pic) is cool. Got that tee on my last Cancun trip. Wore it one day on my trip to the Dominican Republic a few years ago, and on my frequent trips to the bar those Dominican bartenders couldn't keep their eyes off it. I bet I could have traded it to any of them for a big bag of mota or their sister.

[ECO]

When I saw that tee shirt it reminded me of a question that's been bothering me for the past 10 years. Is there such thing as Mayan dollars and can you buy stuff with them? A bunch of the scum bags.........I mean the people that pester you in Mexico to look at time shares offer to pay you in Mayan dollars if you take the tour. To this day I'm convinced that it's funny money.

While on the topic of time shares.....a few years ago I was in Cancun with my wife and we went into a store to buy tickets for the reef snorkeling. Come to find out the store was a front for scum bags.........I mean time share people. After 5 minutes of the guy offering us all sorts of stuff to see a time share I said we wanted hookers (with a straight face but I was really joking). The guy flipped to the last few pages of his presentation book and showed up the hookers. He was wiling to rent us a hooker just to see his time share. Lol, it goes without saying that I backed out of my agreement but we did end up buying the reef tickets from him.

I guess if someone is into hookers and they are on a tight budget they could view a time share a day, eat a few free meals and get a hooker a day.........makes for a cheap trip! Thank God Jamaica has not figured out how to ruin people's vacations with the whole time share thing.

[Wahoo]

Omigod, the time share scum bags! Wasn't bothered by them on my second trip to Cancun (except on arrival at the airport, where many of them pose as tour company reps and aggressively accost you), but they did all but ruin our first trip in the late eighties. Their over-aggressive and relentless pestering will ruin anybody's vacation. We were trying to enjoy a meal in a restaurant, and one of them followed us into the restaurant and pestered us at our table the entire time we were there. Whatever else you do, DO NOT let them know where you're staying, because they WILL show up banging on your door the next morning. Best thing to do when one begins his time share spiel is cut him off with "No thanks, I've bought three today already."

[Nanoose]

Harmonicas and Rock and Roll


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[Nanoose]

Harmonicas and Polka



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[Nanoose]

Harmonicas and Pan Handlers



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