Other uses Harmonika disambiguation Infobox Instrument name Harmonica names image 16 hole chrom 10 hole diatonic.jpg image capt A 16 hole chromatic top and 10 hole diatonic harmonica background other classification ... chromatic harmonica C below Middle C C to the D above C5 slightly over 4 octaves small related ... The harmonica , also called harp, French harp, blues harp , and mouth organ , ref cite web first B last Willy title Harmonica 101 url http www.davidpatrone.com Literature Harmonica101.htm ref is a free ..., low sounds and short reeds make higher pitched sounds. On certain types of harmonica the pre tuned ... harmonica. The basic parts of the harmonica are the comb , reed plates and cover plates . Comb The comb .... The term comb originates from the similarities between simple harmonicas and a hair comb . Harmonica ... middlebury.net interesting lavoie.html Mark Lavoie Harmonica Player ... and more , The Middlebury ... does have a slight influence over the sound of the harmonica, the main advantage of a particular ... Melton title The Complete Idiot s Guide to Playing the Harmonica isbn 0028642414 ref In particular ... because they project sound, they determine the tonal quality of the harmonica. There are two ... playing more comfortable. However, in the traditional slider based chromatic harmonica it is essential ... a bullet mic as he plays amplified harmonica. Amplification devices Since the 1950s, many blues harmonica players have amplified their instrument with microphones and instrument amplifier tube amplifiers ... the harmonica near a Bullet microphone marketed for use by radio Taxicab Dispatching taxi dispatchers . This gave his harmonica tone a punchy mid range sound that could be heard above an electric guitar ... , hence the term Mississippi saxophone . Rack or holder Harmonica players who play the instrument ... called a neck rack or holder to position the instrument in front of their mouth. A harmonica holder clamps the harmonica between two metal brackets, which are attached to a curved loop of metal that rests ... more details
Diatonic harmonica refers to various kinds of single key harmonica gallery Image Suzuki Humming.png Tremolo harmonica . In Asia, diatonic usually refers to this type. Image Gaitas.jpg Blues harp , also known as 10 hole harmonica. In United States and Europe, diatonic usually refer to this type. Image Octave harmonica.jpg Octave harmonica gallery disambig Category harmonica ru ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 The Harmonica Gentlemen was a TRIO consisting of George Fields chromatic harmonica , Leo Friedman chord harmonica , and Don Ripps bass harmonica . They are largely remembered now for recording with The Andrews Sisters and Danny Kaye . George Fields had a solo career as harmonicist and is best known for his harmonica solo Moon River in Henry Mancini s score for Breakfast at Tiffany s Music from the Motion Picture Breakfast at Tiffany s . Donn Ripps was a former member of the Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals the Cappy Barra Harmonica Gentlemen The Harmonica Boys and last The Harmonica Ripples . Leo Friedman was a former Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals and performed in the movie Topman in 1943 when Sammy Ross had replaced Johnny Puleo . DEFAULTSORT Harmonica Gentlemen Category American instrumental musical groups US band stub ... more details
orphan date April 2010 Image HWJune08s.jpg thumb upright Harmonica World June July 2008 Harmonica World is the magazine Publishing published by the National Harmonica League that is distributed to its members six times a year. Citation needed date December 2011 External links http www.harmonica.co.uk www.harmonica.co.uk National Harmonica League web site http www.harmonica.co.uk magazine.htm www.harmonica.co.uk magazine.htm Harmonica World Magazine web site Italic title DEFAULTSORT Harmonica World Category British music magazines Category Magazines with year of establishment missing UK mag stub ... more details
File Chromonica.jpg thumb right 260px A chromatic harmonica Since the 1940s, a number of concerto s as well as non concerto works have been written for the harmonica , both as a solo instrument as well ..., full orchestra, band, or similar large ensemble. Nearly all harmonica concertos are composed for the chromatic harmonica , with the exception of the 2001 concerto for the 10 hole harmonica by Howard Levy . File LarryAdler.jpg thumb right 130px The American classical harmonica soloist Larry Adler 1914 2001 , for whom many composers wrote harmonica concertos Such works include Malcolm Arnold Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra Arnold Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra , Op. 46 1954 composed for Larry Adler Milton Barnes composer Milton Barnes Concerto for Harmonica and Strings composed for Tommy Reilly Arthur Benjamin Harmonica Concerto 1953 composed for Larry Adler Robert Russell Bennett ... Fantasy 1956 composed for Larry Adler Henry Cowell Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra 1962 composed for John Sebastian Norman Dello Joio Concertino for Harmonica and Orchestra 1948 composed for John Sebastian Brett Deubner Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra Leo Diamond Skin Diver Suite 1956 Robert Farnon Prelude and Dance for Harmonica and Orchestra 1966 for Tommy Reilly Walter Girnatis Concertino Sigmund Groven Legends, for Harmonica and Strings 2003 Richard Hayman Concerto 1978 Hugo Herrmann ... Jacob Divertimento 1957 composed for Larry Adler Gordon Jacob Five Pieces for harmonica and piano 1957 also arranged for harmonica and orchestra composed for Tommy Reilly Gordon Jacob Introduction ... for Harmonica and Orchestra 2008, for Sigmund Groven George Kleinsinger Street Corner Concerto 1942 composed for John Sebastian Karl Heinz K per Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra, Op. 12 1961 composed for Tommy Reilly Oddvar S.Kvam Colours, for Harmonica and Strings 1996, for Sigmund Groven Serge Lancen Concerto 1958 composed for Larry Adler Alan Langford Concertante for Harmonica and Strings ... more details
merge to Harmonica date February 2012 Multiple issues unreferenced April 2009 advert July 2009 notability July 2009 orphan December 2010 The Electric Harmonica can be said to have been invented by Richard Smith of Harmonix Harmonicas as he is the inventor and holder of the world wide patent s to place a microphone inside the instrument. External links http www.harmonix harmonica.com Official site DEFAULTSORT Dicks Electric Category Harmonica ... more details
Orphan date October 2011 Refimprove date December 2007 Harmonica is a comic book character that appeared in the Malibu Comics Ultraverse series The Solution comics The Solution . ref The Solution 3 November 1993 ref Little was known about the man known as Harmonica, except that he was enacting a vendetta against Darkur Ultraverse comics the Darkur , a race of shape changing warriors from the Godwheel . Whatever the reason, he consistently eradicated any Darkurian he encountered. Outrage comics Outrage of The Solution comics the Solution met him years ago and barely escaped with his life. Upon their second meeting, though they fought, Harmonica was surprised that Outrage tried to talk him out of fighting. No other Darkurian had ever tried. Harmonica next appeared on the Wold, a land on the Godwheel, to destroy an alien weapon, the Vorlexx. The Solution possessed the device and intended to use it to rescue Shadowmage comics Shadowmage from The Vyr Ultraverse comics the Vyr , a powerful group of evil sorcerers. Harmonica teamed up with the Solution, and soon they found themselves between the Darkurian and Aerwa Ultraverse comics Aerwna elf like enemies of the Darkur armies, both of whom were seeking the Vorlexx as well. The group managed to teleport themselves away into the enclave of the Vyr, where they proved to be nothing more than annoyances to the sorcerers. The Solution managed to rescue Shadowmage, but lost the Vorlexx. Facing the might of the Vyr, Harmonica and the Solution escaped to earth through a teleportational breach that Harmonica created. Harmonica parted ways with the Solution, leaving them in New York. Black September After the Ultraverse Black September Black September Event, which changed the Ultraverse s reality, Harmonica s whereabouts were unknown. References references Category Comics characters introduced in 1993 Category Malibu Comics characters Category Ultraverse Comics char stub tl Harmonica komiks ... more details
There are numerous techniques available for harmonica . A few are described here. For details of how to do such techniques, visit the Harmonica wikibook. wikibooks Harmonica Bending and other techniques In addition to the 20 notes readily available on the diatonic harmonica, players can play other notes ... characteristic of much blues harp and country harmonica playing. Bending on a guitar bends the pitch upward. However, typically bending on a harmonica means the pitch falls downward. Bends are essential for most blues and rock harmonica due to the soulful sounds the instrument can bring out. The famous ... the entire chromatic scale using a diatonic harmonica. This has allowed diatonic harmonica players ... or customised harmonicas. Any harmonica can be set up for better overbending. The primary needs are tight ... on the sides of the reed plate slots towards the reed. While these modifications make the harmonica overbend more easily, overbending is often possible on stock diatonic harmonica, especially ... who use precise overbends and bends to play the diatonic harmonica as a fully chromatic ... any melody in any key within a three octave range on a C diatonic harmonica, most harmonica players ..., register and dynamics of a given melody to a harmonica. Thus, the common practice is still ... songs. As for harmonica players who play mostly classical or jazz music, most would rather ... during play. Positions In addition to playing the diatonic harmonica in its original key ... e.g. playing in D Dorian or G mixolydian on a C Major harmonica , but techniques such as bending enable different modes to be used at each position e.g. playing in E mixolydian on a C Major harmonica . Harmonica players especially blues players have developed a set of terminology around different ... harmonicas. The first three positions cover the vast majority of harmonica playing, and these positions ... the harmonica as it was intended, in its main major key. On a diatonic, starting note is hole ... more details
File Ten Shot Harmonica Pistol 9mm 2 .jpg thumb 300px A ten shot harmonica pistol at the National Firearms Museum A harmonica gun or slide gun is a form of firearm which was breech loading weapon breech loaded with a steel slide, containing a number of chambers bored in it and which were filled with projectiles. Most harmonica guns are percussion cap percussion cap guns , although some designs exist for compressed air guns. ref http www.airgunhome.com agforum viewtopic.php?p 59717 Al stone s 2240 auto loader ref ref http www.airgunhobby.com Airgun hobby magazine, july 2011 ref In percussion cap guns, each chamber contains a separate primer, powder charge, and projectile. The slide was inserted in an opening in the breech action and could be advanced by releasing the camlock, moving the slide by hand. The most famous maker of harmonica guns was Jonathan Browning , father of John Moses Browning . Commencing in 1834 in Quincy, Illinois Quincy , Illinois , he began to make harmonica guns and more conventional revolver revolving rifles . He continued to improve on the principle after he became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and emigration to Nauvoo, Illinois, and finally Ogden, Utah Ogden , Utah . See also Muzzleloader External links http www.muzzleblasts.com archives vol2no4 articles mbo24 2.shtml Jonathan Browning, Mormon gunsmith Nov 6 2008 http good times.webshots.com album 564193113IzsjJo More Pictures of a Harmonica Gun http underhammers.blogspot.com 2009 07 wades at it again ingrhams underhammer.html Example of a Harmonica Rifle References reflist Category Firearm actions ... more details
Infobox musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians name Harmonica Frank image Commented out because image was deleted Image Harmonica Frank.jpg thumb Harmonica Frank on cover of Adelphi AD 1023 caption image size background solo singer birth name Frank Floyd alias birth date birth date 1908 10 ... Harmonica , Human voice vocals , guitar genre Blues , country music country , folk music folk ... Harmonica Frank October 11, 1908, Toccopola, Mississippi Toccopola , Mississippi August 7 ... . He taught himself to play harmonica when he was 10 years old, and he eventually learned guitar ... switching from humorous hillbilly ballads to deep country blues. With his self taught harmonica ... brace. While also playing guitar, he perfected a technique of manipulating the harmonica with his mouth while he sang out of the other side. He could also play harmonica with his nose and thus play ... Noah Lewis . Early recordings After years of performing on the medicine show circuit, Harmonica ... The Great Medical Menagerist in 1954. Harmonica Frank thus became the first white people white musician ... and death Harmonica Frank s songs appeared on many all black blues compilation album compilations ... six musicians, one of whom was Harmonica Frank. Frank Floyd died in Blanchester, Ohio on August ... 25, 2008 , Greil Marcus External links Allmusic class artist id p76658 label Harmonica Frank http www.wirz.de music harmfran.htm Illustrated Harmonica Frank discography http www.cdbaby.com cd hfrankfloyd Harmonica Frank Floyd The Missing Link , essay by Nick Tosches http koti.mbnet.fi wdd harmonicafrank.htm Pete Hoppula s Harmonica Frank discography http www.mustrad.org.uk articles barrick.htm ... NAMES Harmonica Frank SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1908 PLACE OF BIRTH Toccopola ... blues singers Category American blues harmonica players Category American male singers Category Sun Records artists Category Deaths from lung cancer Category Deaths from diabetes de Harmonica Frank ... more details
Infobox musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians name Harmonica Shah image caption image size background solo singer birth name Thaddeus Hall alias Seward Shah birth date birth date and age 1946 3 31 mf y br small Oakland, California Oakland , California , United States small death date origin instrument Harmonica , Human voice vocals genre Detroit blues , electric blues occupation Harmonica ... website notable instruments Harmonica Shah born Thaddeus Hall , March 31, 1946, Oakland, California Oakland , California is an United States American Detroit blues Detroit and electric blues harmonica ... Born in California, Shah also spent time in Somerville, Texas , with his blues harmonica and guitar playing grandfather, Sam Dawson. ref name Island cite web url http www.islandartsfoundation.org harmonica shaw.aspx title Harmonica Shah author publisher Islandartsfoundation.org accessdate October 16 ... Shah bought himself a cheap harmonica in 1976 and, while operating as a taxicab driver, Shah was introduced ... Harmonica Shah author Galloway, Andrew publisher Electrofi.com accessdate October 16, 2010 ref He ... Search cite web url http www.bluessearchengine.com bluesartists s harmonicashah.html title Harmonica ... name Albums cite web url Allmusic class artist id harmonica shah p451820 discography pure url yes title Allmusic Harmonica Shah Allmusic ref Compilation albums Hastings Street Grease Vol. 1 1998 Blue ... music burnsfrm.htm Wirz.de accessed October 2010 ref See also List of Detroit blues musicians List of harmonica ...&sa X&oi image result group&ct title&resnum 7&ved 0CEIQsAQwBg Photographs of Harmonica Shah at Google.co.uk http www.nme.com artists harmonica shah Photographs and videos at NME.com Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Seward Shah ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harmonica Shah SHORT DESCRIPTION ... DEFAULTSORT Shah, Harmonica Category 1946 births Category Living people Category American blues harmonica ... singers Category Songwriters from California Category Harmonica blues musicians Category Electric ... more details
Image Suzuki Humming.png right thumb A tremolo harmonica. Tremolo harmonicas are a type of harmonica , distinct by having two reeds per note. In a tremolo harmonica the two reeds are tuned slightly off a reference pitch, one slightly sharp and the other slightly flat. This gives a unique wavering or warbling sound created by the two reeds being not exactly in tune with each other and difference in their subsequent waveforms acting against one another. The degree of beating can be varied depending on the desired effect. Instruments where the beating is faster due to the reeds being farther apart .... The tremolo harmonica achieves the effect by employing the physical phenomenon called beat acoustics ... diatonic harmonica and also found in diatonic accordions and concertinas. This tuning has the major diatonic scale in the middle and top octaves of the harmonica with two chords in the lowest ... of the harmonica. In Asia, the fourths and the sixths are added back in, in order to play the melody .... Here the notes of the major scale are found throughout the range of the harmonica without a separate ... both a C and C harmonica stacked in order to achieve full chromaticity by having essentially the same notes available in each octave of the harmonica. This tuning is also applied to Tombo s S 50. capital ... are perhaps the most common form of harmonica in the world, being very popular in folk music as well as in much of East Asia . In the West, the tremolo harmonica is usually encountered in traditional ... instrument. Other An interesting recent development has been that of the chromatic tremolo harmonica. This combines the slider design of the chromatic harmonica with the dual reed beating sound of the tremolo harmonica. Harmonica technician John Infande has been manufacturing his own design in limited numbers for several years http www.infandecustomharmonicas.com page2.html while the Japan ese harmonica ... harmonicas DEFAULTSORT Tremolo Harmonica Category Harmonica de Tremoloharmonika ... more details
Refimprove date January 2007 Infobox single See Wikipedia WikiProject Songs Name Alvin s Harmonica Cover Alvin s Harmonica Chipmunks.jpg Artist David Seville and Alvin and the Chipmunks The Chipmunks Album Let s All Sing with The Chipmunks A side B side Mediocre Released 1959 Format Gramophone record 7 Recorded Genre Pop music Pop Length 2 39 Label Liberty Records Liberty Writer Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. Producer Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. Certification Chronology Alvin and the Chipmunks The Chipmunks singles Last single The Chipmunk Song Christmas Don t Be Late br 1958 This single Alvin s Harmonica br 1959 Next single Ragtime Cowboy Joe br 1959 Alvin s Harmonica is a song from the fictional musical group, Alvin and the Chipmunks , which also features additional vocals by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. who plays David Seville in the song. The song was released as the second single from the group s debut album, Let s All Sing with the Chipmunks in 1959. Like Witch Doctor song Witch Doctor and The Chipmunk Song , it was adapted as one of the musical segments featured in The Alvin Show . Chart performance After the group s previous single, The Chipmunk Song , reached 1 on the charts, it was hoped that Alvin s Harmonica would do the same or at least reach the Top Ten. The single peaked at 3 on Billboard s Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart , becoming the group s second consecutive and final Top 10 single on the charts. Since the song was also credited to David Seville by Billboard magazine Billboard , the song became his third consecutive Top 10 single on the charts, although it was his first to not reach 1 on the charts. Alvin s Harmonica sold more than 500,000 singles making it a certified gold record. ref cite book last Whitburn first Joel title Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits 7th Edition year 2000 publisher Billboard Books location Cincinnati, OH isbn 0 8230 7690 3 pages 563 url http www.recordresearch.com ref Alvin s Harmonica managed to re enter the chart in 1961 and 1962, peaking at 73 ... more details
Image Chromonica.jpg thumb 270px Hohner Super Chromatic harmonica, a typical 12 hole chromatic. Refimprove date May 2009 The chromatic harmonica is a type of harmonica that uses a button activated sliding bar to redirect air from the hole in the mouthpiece to the selected reed plate desired. When the button is not pressed, an altered diatonic major scale of the key of the harmonica is available, while ... harmonica players include the classical player Larry Adler , the classical player Tommy Reilly , the classical ... it is a fully chromatic scale chromatic instrument, the chromatic harmonica is the instrument of choice ... and draw notes, giving additional tonality if needed. In traditional harmonica bands, the chromatic harmonica plays the lead part. Stock chromatics are well suited for players who play chromatics in third ... While the chromatic harmonica is capable of playing in all keys, it does have limitations. For example ... the G chords available on a Richter tuned device. Thus, while a chromatic harmonica is well suited .... As the chromatic harmonica is designed to play melodies in any key, many 16 hole and special ... to get over the limits of the chromatic harmonica the first approach, encouraged mainly by classical music players such as Franz Chmel , is that a good harmonica player should try his or her best to use ... counterparts with a typical chromatic harmonica selling at a price that is up to ten times higher than a simple diatonic harmonica. Slider design Chromatic harmonicas are often described as either ... this is to construct the harmonica more like a traditional Richter diatonic whereas the standard chromatic ..., particularly in Asia, such as the horn harmonica , as well as Tombo s S 50, Tombo s Chromatic ... tremolo harmonica sitting on top of a C tremolo harmonica, with blow and draw reeds each sitting ... by changing the angle of the harmonica. Alternate tunings Like Diatonic, Chromatics are available ... Category Harmonica nl Chromatische mondharmonica ru ... more details
and higher notes smaller disks to the right. The glass harmonica , also known as the glass armonica ..., the glass harmonica is a crystallophone . The phenomenon of rubbing a wet finger around the rim ... harmonica, being played in Rome , Italy. The rims of wine glass es filled with water are rubbed by the player s fingers to create the notes. The word glass harmonica also glassharmonica , glass armonica, harmonica de verre or armonica de verre in French, glasharmonika in German refers to any instrument ... means harmony. ref The free reed wind instrument called the harmonica was not invented until 1821 ... is also recorded, composed of Greek language Greek roots to mean something like harmonica to produce ... composers composed works for the glass harmonica some pieces survived in the repertoire in transcriptions ... on a glass harmonica. format Ogg European monarchs indulged in it, and even Marie Antoinette took ... s first draft called for glass harmonica which used the name but was actually a kind of glass ... from playing the glass harmonica was noted by a German musicologist Friedrich Rochlitz in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung quote The harmonica excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player ... from pure silica glass. ref http www.finkenbeiner.com GLASSHARMONICA.htm Glass harmonica at Finkenbeiner ... ref Modern revival Image Glass Harmonica at Poncan Theatre.jpg thumb right Dennis James plays the Glass Harmonica at the Poncan Theatre in Ponca City, Oklahoma, on April 2, 2011. Music for glass harmonica and glass harp was all but unknown from 1820 although Gaetano Donizetti intended for the aria Il dolce suono from his 1835 opera Lucia di Lammermoor to be accompanied by a glass harmonica ... a variation of the glass harmonica in 1952, the crystal organ or Cristal baschet , which consists of 52 chromatically tuned glass rods that are rubbed with wet fingers. The glass harmonica differs mainly ... Pink Floyd s 1975 track, Shine On You Crazy Diamond , opens using a glass harmonica. Citation needed ... more details
notability date December 2007 The Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica SPAH is an organization dedicated to players of the harmonica . It was founded in October 1962 and officially incorporated on October 23, 1963. It is based in Troy, Michigan Troy , Michigan , United States , and has members in the United States and around the world. The society sponsors harmonica conventions. ref http www.spah.org mc page.do?sitePageId 8598&orgId spa ref Objectives The objectives of the organization are to cultivate, develop, improve, foster, promote, preserve and advance the harmonica and harmonica playing. SPAH also tries to lobby for the instrument s acceptance as a bonafide musical instrument. The organization encourages members to form harmonica clubs and hold annual gatherings. SPAH sponsors an annual convention for the entire membership, which draws attendees from many countries. While many SPAH members do, or have played harmonica at an advanced level, playing skill on the instrument is not required. Activities The organization sponsors an annual five day International Harmonica Convention and publishes a quarterly magazine, Harmonica Happenings . As well, to promote harmonica pedagogy, it distributes information on teaching harmonica, and responds to questions about harmonica playing or teaching. The organization also recognizes and honors people either players, historians, or writers who preserve and advance the harmonica. SPAH s website also contains information on harmonicas and harmonica playing. External links http www.spah.org The Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica official site References reflist DEFAULTSORT Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica, The Category Harmonica organizations Category Organizations established in 1962 music org stub ... more details
The Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra , Opus 46, is a concerto featuring a harmonica soloist, composed by the English musician Malcolm Arnold . The piece was composed in 1954 for the American harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler , and was premiered on August 14, 1954 at the Royal Albert Hall , with accompaniment by the BBC Symphony Orchestra . The concerto was one of the first of a number of serious pieces composed for the harmonica after the Second World War in addition to works by Darius Milhaud , Ralph Vaughan Williams , and Heitor Villa Lobos . The concerto has a duration of nine minutes and is cast in three movements Grazioso Mesto Con brio Sources The World Guide to Musical Instruments, Max Wade Matthews, Anness Publishing Ltd., 2001 http www.malcolmarnold.co.uk Official Malcolm Arnold Website Category Compositions by Malcolm Arnold Category 1954 compositions Category Concertos Harmonica concerto stub ... more details
The National Harmonica League is an organization for harmonica players and enthusiasts, based in Great Britain but with members world wide. The President of the organization is Paul Jones singer Paul Jones . It publishes a magazine, Harmonica World which is sent to members six times a year. It organises events and tuition meetings. The main festival is currently held in October, in The Bristol Folk House. It includes workshops, concerts and a harmonica contest which has been won by many players who went on to play professionally, including Philip Achille . ref cite news title FOLK MUSIC NATIONAL HARMONICA LEAGUE FESTIVAL Folk House Bristol url http www.highbeam.com doc 1G1 110495076.html work The Independent date 2003 11 25 accessdate 2008 04 07 ref ref cite news title We Ll Hit Longer Note Next Festival url http www.accessmylibrary.com coms2 summary 0286 26451964 ITM work Bristol Evening Post date 2002 10 23 accessdate 2008 04 07 ref External links http www.harmonica.co.uk www.harmonica.co.uk National Harmonica League web site http www.harmonica.co.uk magazine.htm www.harmonica.co.uk magazine.htm Harmonica World Magazine web site References reflist Category Arts organisations based in the United Kingdom Category Harmonica music org stub ... more details
Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival APHF, Chinese language Chinese , Japanese language Japanese is one of the world s largest harmonica events. It is held every two years. The first APHF was held in Taipei in 1996. Deleted image removed Image aphflogo.jpg thumb 200px APHF Logo List of APHF border 0 cellpadding 3px style border 1px solid 999 background color ffffff align center style background color cccccc Year Host City Country Region Organizer 1996 Taipei Taiwan http www.hapa.org.tw Taiwan Harmonica Art Promotion Association 1998 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia http myharmonicaworld.com Harmonica World SDN BHD 2000 Seoul South Korea http www.harmonicabank.com Korea Harmonica Association 2002 Atsugi Japan http ajhf0.at.infoseek.co.jp All Japan Harmonica Federation 2004 Hong Kong China http www.hkharmonica.org Hong Kong Harmonica Association http khq.hk King s Harmonica Quintet 2006 Taipei Taiwan http www.hapa.org.tw Taiwan Harmonica Art Promotion Association 2008 Hangzhou China 2010 Singapore Singapore http www.harmonica.org.sg Singapore Harmonica Aficionados Society 2012 Malaysia http www.aphf2012.com Official site External links http ajhf0.at.infoseek.co.jp eatsugi2002.htm 4th APHF 2002 Official Homepage http www.hkharmonica.org modules event aphf2004 5th APHF 2004 Official Homepage http www.2006aphf.org.tw 6th APHF 2006 Official Homepage http www.hangzhou2008.net 7th APHF 2008 Official Homepage http www.aphf2010.org 8th APHF 2010 Official Homepage http www.aphf2012.com 9th APFH 2012 Official Homepage Category harmonica A zh ... more details
Other persons George Smith File George Harmonica Smith.jpg thumb George Harmonica Smith in 1980 George Harmonica Smith April 22, 1924 &ndash October 2, 1983 ref name AMG Allmusic class artist id p126309 biography pure url yes Allmusic.com accessed May 2009 ref born Allen George Smith was an United States American electric blues harmonica player. ref name Music cite book first Paul last Du Noyer year 2003 title The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music edition 1st publisher Flame Tree Publishing location Fulham, London isbn 1 904041 96 5 page 181 ref Life and career Born in West Helena, Arkansas , United States , but brought up in Cairo, Illinois Cairo , Illinois , he began playing professionally in 1951. ref name russell cite book first Tony last Russell year 1997 title The Blues From Robert Johnson ... Smith played with the blues combo, Bacon Fat, and tutored its harmonica player Rod Piazza , and mentored .... ref name russell He appeared on her album Jail 1975 , and with another harmonica student William ... Walter . ref name russell George Harmonica Smith died in 1983, in Los Angeles , California at the age of 59. ref name AM Selected discography Harmonica Ace Ace Records ref name russell Harmonica Blues ... Masters of Blues Harp http www.wirz.de music smithgeo.htm Illustrated George Harmonica Smith discography Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Smith, George Harmonica ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION United States American electric blues harmonica player DATE OF BIRTH April 22 ... Los Angeles , California , United States DEFAULTSORT Smith, George Harmonica Category 1924 births Category 1983 deaths Category American blues musicians Category American blues harmonica players Category Harmonica blues musicians Category Electric blues musicians Category People from Phillips County ... Joint blues musicians Category Deram Records artists de George Harmonica Smith pl George Harmonica Smith simple George Harmonica Smith ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date October 2008 King s College Harmonica Band KCHB by a King s College Alumni King s College Harmonica Band KCHB , founded in 1951, is one of the oldest harmonica Musical ensemble ensembles in Hong Kong . At first, it consisted of only a few members. In the 60 s, under the baton of Mr. Fung On , the band began to expand in scale and won an enviable reputation for performances in Hong Kong . At that time, KCHB comprised over 30 members and through their efforts, numerous prizes in the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival were won, which are unnumbered. Towards the 1960s, because of Mr. Fung s leaving, the success and enthusiasm of the band waned until Mr. Hui Yau Fong took the Baton conducting baton a few years later. Mr. Hui reorganized KCHB, enthusiastically nurtured the new generation, and prepared for future development. Between 1981 and 1985, KCHB ... the stage and the baton went to Mr. Johnny KUAN , another old boy and harmonica enthusiast. Under ... from 1989 to 1993 in the Concert Work of Harmonica Solo of the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival . In 1991 ... harmonica kick among professionals and amateurs alike. Shortly after that, the ongoing development ... concert at Drama Theatre, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts so as to promote harmonica music ... Anniversary of our alma mater and the Golden Anniversary of the Harmonica Band. In the concert ... of Mr. Kuan. In 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004, KCHB members participated in the Asia Pacific Harmonica ..., made their European d but by entering the World Harmonica Festival held in the Town of Harmonica &ndash Trossingen , Germany . Nowadays, KCHB is a harmonica orchestra consisting of more than 40 members, many of them being experienced and prospective harmonica players. KCHB will continue its tradition of nurturing the new generation of harmonica players, while encouraging more students to get in touch with and appreciate classical music. Category Hong Kong musical groups Category Harmonica ... more details
Multiple issues orphan December 2008 unreferenced December 2008 notability December 2008 Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Tunes for a Small Harmonica title orig translator image author Barbera Wersba cover artist country United States language English language English series genre novel publisher Harper and Row release date October 1977 media type Print Hardback pages 173 isbn 0060263733 congress PZ7.W473 Tu oclc 2224740 preceded by followed by Tunes for a Small Harmonica is a novel by Barbera Wersba about an adolescent tomboy named J.F. McAllister. It was originally published by Dell Publishing but was then reprinted by Harper and Row publishing. Plot J.F. receives a harmonica from friend for her birthday and ends up learning to play it. She becomes quite good and this skill becomes useful after she ends up falling in love with her poetry teacher and then decides to try to raise 1000 to help her teacher to be able to return to England to finish his Master s thesis. DEFAULTSORT Tunes For A Small Harmonica Category 20th century American novels Category 1977 novels ... more details
The following is a list of harmonica blues musicians . compactTOC8 side yes top yes num yes A Billy Boy Arnold B Deford Bailey Carey Bell Sugar Blue Billy Branch Buster Brown musician Buster Brown Norton Buffalo George Mojo Buford Eddie Guitar Burns Lester Butler Paul Butterfield C Joe Carter guitarist Joe Carter Cephas & Wiggins Good Rockin Charles Jaybird Coleman James Cotton D Daddy Stovepipe Paul deLay Cyril Davies Magic Dick Little Arthur Duncan Johnny Dyer G J. Geils Alan Glen Adam Gussow H Slim Harpo Shakey Jake Harris Big Walter Horton Mark Hummel L Paul Lamb musician Paul Lamb Lazy Lester Little Sonny Little Walter John Juke Logan Louisiana Red M Eddie Mapp Johnny Mars John Mayall Lee McBee Jerry McCain Mike Morgan blues musician Mike Morgan Charlie Musselwhite Sam Myers N Hammie Nixon Sugar Ray Norcia Darrell Nulisch O Paul Oscher Lee Oskar P Rod Piazza Jerry Portnoy Gary Primich Snooky Pryor Zackery Pomerleau R Annie Raines Jimmy Reed Jason Ricci S Curtis Salgado Mikael Santana Satan and Adam Harmonica Shah Corky Siegel Mark Corky Seigel Little Mack Simmons George Harmonica Smith T Sonny Terry W Junior Wells Golden Big Wheeler Sonny Boy Williamson I Sonny Boy Williamson II Chris Wilson blues musician Chris Wilson Kim Wilson Big John Wrencher References Allmusic Category Lists of musicians by genre H Category Harmonica blues musicians ... more details
NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Harmonica player DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1918 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2010 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Adler, Jerry Harmonica Player Category 1918 births Category 2010 deaths Category American harmonica players Category Deaths from prostate cancer Category ... more details
tuning Richter tuned harmonica , or 10 hole harmonica in Asia or blues harp in United States America , is the most widely known type of harmonica . It is a variety of diatonic harmonica , with ten ... note in a three octave range. The standard diatonic harmonica is designed to allow a player to play ... diatonic harmonica, labeled C , starting on Middle C. Image BluesHarp Notes Layout.png 300px ... on the harmonica, between holes 4 and 7. The lower holes are designed around the tonic chord tonic ... keys Aside from bending, Richter tuned harmonicas are musical mode modal . Playing the harmonica ..., playing music in the key of C on a C tuned harmonica. More common especially in blues and rock ... below the key of the harmonica for example, on a C tuned harmonica, a second position blues would be in G ... accessible on a C tuned harmonica. The lower notes of harps in the lower keys G through C are easier ... G7 and G9 as well as blue note s particularly on D chords, where the harmonica is tuned to play ... tone above that of the harmonica. On a C tuned harmonica, this would mean playing in the key of D. This is known as slant harp or third position playing, and results in the harmonica playing in dorian ... tuned instruments Some players prefer specially tuned variants of the diatonic harmonica. For example .... This tuning, designed and marketed by Lee Oskar, is a particularly interesting evolution of the harmonica ... B C E G B C E It is also possible for a harp player to tune the harmonica himself. By making small scratches ... bend notes in the same way as a regular diatonic harmonica in the middle octave, some players use this for blues and even jazz instead of the more well known solo tuned harmonica, the chromatic harmonica ... harmonica, key out In this configuration, blues players usually play in the third position, the D ... Band M365 14 hole harmonica. The general dimensions of the 12 and 14 hole Hohner harmonicas are a bit ... 1 on a regular diatonic harmonica in the key of C. The Marine Band M36408 and M36508 in G are similar ... more details
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