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Rummaging through my sock drawer today, I found a Hohner Marine Band Model 1896 harmonica, in the original box, that I had bought in my senior year in high school, in 1975. Price sticker on the box - $5.25.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the current price on Amazon, same model. $54.00!!! Talk about a case of sticker shock 😲
Any harmonica players here on the 'fire?
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Have a Hohner GLH sitting next to my recliner. I can't play fur s hit, but it's an excellent tool for irritating the mrs.
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Yep, Have about 10 in different keys. Lotta Cs and I might have a 1973 model in the mix. Quit buying them at $20 but some are getting sketchy. I have a 125th anniversary in C that is pretty special. $54 is pretty steep. You can get 3 or 4 Big Mac combos for that. A good labrador will hum along.
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My Dad and my one brother both play them well. Me, never learned it.
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Got a chuckle out of me, 12344mag. solo
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You got ripped off JeffyD. My son found my Marine band in the box and marked on the bottom $4.95. I believe I was a Junior in High school when I got it, that would be 1960.
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There was a local rancher, a WWII vet, who raised santa gertrudes cattle for a wealthy land owner. He played a mean harmonica at our church. His was an electric model attached to an amplifier.
Quite a guy, he spent his annual vacation working on a cattle ranch out west. Loved and lived the lifestyle.
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At church they asked me if I'd sing solo. Solo that I couldn't be heard........ 🤣
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I worked with a ol boy that played a great harmonic. He played one with double row of reed holes, and a slide of some sort, I believe change key. Not sure how it worked.. He would play it at break and lunch. Request a song and he could play most requested. He's 85 now still playing. Says it kept his lungs healthy .. Great quite mannered guy!!
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Used to try, noodling around and stuff, years ago.
Had to stop.....................
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I enjoy a good harp player. My son is an accomplished guitarist and tells me if play anything, it probably has Fisher Price wrote on it somewhere. Grew up in the Mississippi Delta and heard a lot of harp players. My next door neighbor, a white guy, played one well. I tried but don’t have musical talent. Donald told me he had worked for a guy that installed and serviced juke boxes in juke joints and picked up the bad habit there. I have been to Sonny Boy Williamson’s grave outside Tutweiler, Mississippi and Robert Johnson’s 3 gravesites around Greenwood. Tutweiler is where W C Handy heard a young black using a pocketknife to play a guitar in a style that was to become bottleneck style. A famous mural is there commemorating the event. You usually find whiskey bottles, coins (some foreign) and even old wore out Marine Bands in C atop the headstone. I also went to the King Biscuit Blues Studio and received a guided tour. Some folks can get a lotta sound and energy out of a cheap harp. I grew up listening to some white boys who could wail a harp - John Mayall, Paul Butterfield, and Charle Musselwhite Check em out. I’m eclectic in my tastes, like roots, bluegrass, old country, and sacred harp music too
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Charlie Musselwhite, never got the recognition he deserved. As good as Butterfield, not quite as good as Mayall. I might have to dig out some old 33's. Haven't listened to good blues harp for awhile.
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Seen Charlie, he's a good one. Benefit of going to school in Humboldt, that area had some good music shows. Robert Lucas, Rod Piazza, James Cotton and a couple other harp players there. And Taj Mahal.
Wish it was a more popular instrument in today's music.
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