Re: [Harp-L] gold cover plates on Hohner Golden Melody (was Question about harps played by Bobby Darin)

[Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak@xxxxxxxxx>]

There was also a Navy Band model that had gold cover plates similar to the
GM. I bought mine in the early 70's, but it was old stock at a music store.
So, I'm not sure of the years it was produced, but it is listed in an
(undated) old Hohner catalog I have where it cost $3.50 and Marine Bands
are $2.50.

Its comb is darker than present day GM's, more like plum or maroon. I just
played around a little bit with the one I have: It does not seem to be in
Equal Tempered tuning--the chords sound smooth.

Here are some pix:

http://tinyurl.com/mo8ospp


Eric





On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 8:47 PM, fjm <bad_hat@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For an image of the Golden Melody-esque 1857-1957 Centennial model look at
> this e-bay auction,
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Vintage-RARE-Hohner-Harmonica-
> both-w-cases-/121305738988?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c3e62aeec
>
>
> For the other Centennial 1861-1961 Civil War commemorative you can look at
> this Craig's List ad,
>
> http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/msg/4381102628.html
>
> My apologies since neither link will persist and I'm not including the
> images because they wouldn't post anyway.  fjm
>