Fwd: more on civil war harps

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

- --- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, rainbowjimmy@xxxx wrote:

>So chances are, there weren't a lot of Civil War harmonicas, they 
>were mostly played by German immigrants, and they were most likely 
>Hohner harmonicas.

Again, Hohner propoganda. We don't know the extent to which either 
domestic or foreign manufacturers were actively makreting product in 
the U.S. at the time .That includes Hohner, for whom the only 
evidence is their unsupported claims.

It may be true, but we can't accept that it is just because they have 
said so for nearly 100 years and others have uncritically repeated 
their claims.

Winslow