I watched “The Wizard of OZ” once a year for close to a decade when I was growing up. It is one of the great American mythological stories, at least it is for me…. It was only a matter of time till I tried my hand (and mouth) at tackling
Face Time How much time do you spend with a harmonica in your face? I have to admit that when it comes to the simple things in life, I am mostly a slow learner. It’s embarrassing. One way I keep from getting too hung up about this is listening to
Organize Your Reeds! Below is a link to a PDF with a new, improved reed chart for finding repair reeds for Hohner Classic diatonic harmonicas: Organize Your Reeds! One of my goals in life is to help close the gap between maintaining harmonicas and maintaining guitars. Everyone who plays guitar
I hope you have had a chance to reflect on 2012 and think at least a little bit about what you want for 2013. You might as well use the collective momentum of the tradition of New Year resolutions to pick at least one worthy goal. Last year I wrote
Whoops! – the tab i wrote for Auld Lang Syne in the last post is wrong. WRONG. What a way to start the New Year. Being humbled. An alert reader pointed out to me that what I tabbed was actually 12th position. He’s right. He also pointed out that I
The harmonica tab below is for a standard 10 hole diatonic harmonica in richter tuning. Below the tab is a Youtube video of a woman named “Nozie” playing the tune on a big piano accordion. If you want to follow her on harmonica using the tab below, grab a C
The Big Walter video above is a good example of why you might want to get good at tongue blocking……. If you struggle with mastering the art of playing the harmonica with tongue blocking, I have good news for you. There is now a tool you can use to make
peg o my heart mp3 I tried to make this into a youtube video but my limited patience and skills got the best of me…. This was recorded on a Suzuki SUB 30 in Key or A, first octave converted to standard diatonic (double reed) My friend Chris Rattie
The Practicing Mind If you want to get a new lease on life and music, check out this book: “The Practicing Mind” by Thomas M. Sterner. A fellow harp tech turned me on to this book because it was written by a man who is a musician and a piano
Would you like to have a way to deep clean your harmonica reed plates without expensive devices or scary cleaning chemicals? I did, and here are the results of my research…. I just did a youtube video: on cleaning harmonicas. I will give you a shopping list here for my