Re: Bushman Harps

[Bobbie Giordano <bobg@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:43 PM 1/29/2003 -0800, John Watts wrote:
>--- the Leones <leone@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>   Bushman is a stupid name for a harmonica. When was the last time 
>>you saw a bushman playing harp.
>
>Actually as I understand it the name comes from the inventor of the
>harmonica, Christian Friederich Ludwig Buschmann.

This is correct, Smokey. ;)  That was John Hall's reasoning, despite
changing the spelling of the name.  I seem to recall there would have
been some sort of conflict using the exact spelling of the name, but I
could be mistaken, so don't quote me on that! :)

The funny thing is that most people call the harmonica "Bushman", but
this diatonic is a particular model of John's Bushman brand, and it's
actual name is "Soul's Voice"!

Bobbie
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