Re: plastic reedplates?

["Hambone Hamilton" <harpmanx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recall my first toy being a plastic blue harmonica, and really having a 
lot of fun with it.  Stuck with me all these years....
Hambone


>From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: plastic reedplates?
>Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:48:27 -0400
>
>
>At 05:19 PM 4/18/2004, Pat Missin wrote:
>
>> >Have any successful harmonicas ever been made with plastic reedplates?
>>
>>I guess that depends on how you define "successful". Finn Magnus
>>became a millionaire by manufacturing harmonicas that were entirely
>>made of plastic.
>>
>>  -- Pat.
>
>Irresistible to run a search on Finn Magnus's name and see what appears.  
>One entry under a site called Horatio Alger Stories.  Then there are some 
>desultory sites linked to old-time toy collections.  What scared me is I 
>remember the Magnus Organ because I may have had one when I was a kid--if I 
>played it I must have looked like Schroeder in "Peanuts."  Like the 
>harmonica, it was all plastic and/or bakelite.  I probably owned at least 
>one of the harmonicas as well.  I have absolutely on recollection of how 
>they sounded, quality, any of that stuff.
>
>KW
>
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