20thmaine | 02 Aug 2017 5:19 a.m. PST |
Well? 1. Yes – Diatonic 2. Yes – Chromatic 3. Yes – Diatonic & Chromatic 4. No 5. What's a harmonica? I don't have the Internet so can't look it up on Wikipedia 6. Not a wargamer 7. Zardoz |
Tom Reed | 02 Aug 2017 6:11 a.m. PST |
4. But I always wanted to learn, I even have one somewhere. |
Random Die Roll | 02 Aug 2017 6:12 a.m. PST |
#1---but at a self taught level |
Winston Smith | 02 Aug 2017 6:16 a.m. PST |
Only while in prison. "Red River Valley" is very popular. |
Joes Shop | 02 Aug 2017 6:21 a.m. PST |
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skedaddle | 02 Aug 2017 6:33 a.m. PST |
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Cacique Caribe | 02 Aug 2017 6:35 a.m. PST |
My uncle says I used to play as a kid. I vaguely remember, so I must have been too young to have been any good. Dan |
Old Wolfman | 02 Aug 2017 7:07 a.m. PST |
Yep. Hohner Blues Harp. And not too badly ,either. Taught myself a few numbers,and improv quite well too. |
Thomas O | 02 Aug 2017 7:36 a.m. PST |
I can probably play one like Bob Dylan, but no I don't play. |
Dynaman8789 | 02 Aug 2017 7:54 a.m. PST |
8 – Yes, but people pay me to stop. |
Patrick Sexton | 02 Aug 2017 8:23 a.m. PST |
No. But I have tried. Often and awfully. |
Hlaven | 02 Aug 2017 8:37 a.m. PST |
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StoneMtnMinis | 02 Aug 2017 8:44 a.m. PST |
8. Badly Dynaman8789 |
dsfrank | 02 Aug 2017 9:46 a.m. PST |
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Flashman14 | 02 Aug 2017 9:58 a.m. PST |
7 followed by 4. I know folks love the sound, but I'm not one of them – and I love a lot of traditional and roots music. |
ZULUPAUL | 02 Aug 2017 10:19 a.m. PST |
4 no musical instrument talent at all. I do sing fairly well though. |
JSchutt | 02 Aug 2017 10:22 a.m. PST |
….learned one song so I could check it off my bucket list…which more resembles a styrofoam cup. |
Shagnasty | 02 Aug 2017 10:56 a.m. PST |
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Herkybird | 02 Aug 2017 11:28 a.m. PST |
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Tacitus | 02 Aug 2017 11:43 a.m. PST |
Time to stir the pot. Saying one can 'play' the harmonica is like saying one can repeatedly smack a boar in the nuts with an old bagpipe while yodeling off key. Sounds about the same. |
Lee Brilleaux | 02 Aug 2017 11:53 a.m. PST |
Ten hole diatonic – mostly Hohners. Adequate blues player for close on forty years now. Sometimes I play with a rack and a guitar, but like most players I'm better when there's a band and I'm free to use my right hand for effects. Tacitus might want to expound his views in any bar in the south side of Chicago, and see who agrees with him. We can have a whip round for funeral expenses. Count me out, though. |
etotheipi | 02 Aug 2017 1:40 p.m. PST |
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Lee Brilleaux | 02 Aug 2017 2:19 p.m. PST |
Here is Sonny Boy Williamson II, who had to leave a European tour in 1963 pretty quickly after he knifed someone. He was 61 at the time. YouTube link |
Cerdic | 02 Aug 2017 2:33 p.m. PST |
No. A strangely random question! It is not a common instrument. I've met more people who play the ukulele than I've met harmonica players! |
Goober | 02 Aug 2017 4:37 p.m. PST |
Yes. Chromatic. Badly, but enthusiastically. |
Winston Smith | 02 Aug 2017 6:46 p.m. PST |
As Moliere said to Voltaire, "A gentleman is one who knows how to play the harmonica, but does not." Voltaire replied by whipping out his harp and playing "I'm a Man". |
20thmaine | 04 Aug 2017 5:36 a.m. PST |
How do you spell that ? |
20thmaine | 04 Aug 2017 5:37 a.m. PST |
@Lee Brilleaux : I might have been able to guess you could play! |
Dagwood | 04 Aug 2017 10:29 a.m. PST |
To paraphrase, "You know how to play a harmonica, don't you ? Just pucker your lips and blow !" |
20thmaine | 04 Aug 2017 12:40 p.m. PST |
Would that it were so easy, would that it were. |
20thmaine | 04 Aug 2017 12:47 p.m. PST |
Here is Sonny Boy Williamson II, You know what's annoying about that clip ? When he just sticks the harp in his mouth, he still plays better than I do. |
zoneofcontrol | 12 Feb 2018 6:06 a.m. PST |
I actually used to play both the Harmonica and the Musical Saw. I had to give them both up when I started getting them confused. |
DWilliams | 13 Feb 2018 1:31 p.m. PST |
Yes … and while strumming the guitar. Multi-tasking is my speciality! |