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

It was Saturday Night and I was in panic mode as I looked at my clipboard and desperately made changes in my notes…. I was part of a local concert at a beautiful restored old theatre in State College, PA. It was a benefit concert and the theme was British

Here is a video of me playing two A harmonicas through an amp. One is tuned to pure Just intonation, the other one is much closer to equal temperament. I wrote an article on this topic that goes into a lot more detail and if you click on this sentence

“He not busy being born is busy dying” . Bob Dylan “Get busy living, or get busy dying.” – Andy Dufresne I am feeling very inspired this morning by a movie I never saw: “The Shawshank Redemption” I read the short version of the movie, which I will now make

The first time I went to see Joe Filisko I took a train from Philadelphia to Joliet Illinois. In my lap was a box full of harmonica prototypes made of brass stock screwed together with these insanely tiny screws, reed plates with the reeds attached with screws and nuts, the

I’ll be plying twice in the charming town of Millheim this weekend.Located in Amish country, the traffic includes horse drawn buggies.   The first gig is a solo gig on Friday Nov. 25th 7:30 – 8:30 at the Green Drake, a Gallery and Arts center created from a former hardware