[Harp-L] Re: Harp Player's Famous Quotes

[Peter and Connie Ruth <conruth@xxxxxxxxx>]

John Steinbeck wrote this paragraph about harmonicas in his book THE  
GRAPES OF WRATH:

"A harmonica is easy to carry.  Take it out of your hip pocket, knock  
it against your palm to shake out the dirt and pocket fuzz and bits  
of tobacco.  Now it's ready.  You can do anything with a harmonica:  
thin reedy single tone, or chords, or melody with rhythm chords.  You  
can mold the music with curved hands, making it wail and cry like  
bagpipes, making it full and round like an organ, making it as sharp  
and bitter as the reed pipes of the hills.  And you can play and put  
it back in your pocket.  It's always with you, always in your  
pocket.  And as you play, you learn new tricks, new ways to mold the  
tone with your hands, to pinch the tone with your lips, and no one  
teaches you.  You feel around - sometimes alone in the shade at noon,  
sometimes in the tent after supper...  Your foot taps gently on the  
ground.  Your eyebrows rise and fall in rhythm.  And if you lose it  
or break it, why, it's no great loss.  You can buy another for a  
quarter.”

John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath

Peter Madcat Ruth
madcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.madcatmusic.net