Most nights, you can walk into a blues club and find a harmonica player blowing their heart out onstage. The wailing, honking sound associated with Western movies and juke joints is what many harp ...
When Ron Kalina was 5 years old his mother took him to buy a pair of shoes. With the shoes, the boy was offered the choice of a free pocket knife or a free harmonica. He chose the harmonica. He never ...
Every instrument has an image. The piano is largely synonymous with bourgeois respectability and the electric guitar with youthful rebellion. Perhaps more importantly, both of these devices has a ...
Harmonicas were commonly called “French harps” or “mouth organs” and mountain men played them superbly. Some still do, though such old-fashioned music is not nearly as common as it was before and ...
As a world champion harmonicist, Leo Ho Cheuk-yin, better known as CY Leo, has played his tiny wind instrument on countless stages. But his first gig at the Hong Kong Coliseum has always stood out in ...
When the members of this Smithtown club want to hear their favorite tunes, they don't need any of the newfangled wireless technology. They just reach into a pocket, pull out a harmonica and start ...
Most nights, you can walk into a blues club and find a harmonica player blowing their heart out onstage. The wailing, honking sound associated with Western movies and juke joints is what many harp ...