Re: [Harp-L] RE: New Hohner logo -- how old?

[Bobbie Giordano <bobg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Ball wrote:
>
>One interesting thing about the box: Hohner mixed up McCartney and 
>Harrison, reversing their signatures next to their faces.  I am told 
>there was a correction, and that a later (corrected) model -- much 
>rarer -- was issued. But I have no idea whether that's true, or just 
>wishful thinking and a legend.

There was a corrected version issued.  But, as I understand it, this harp was
issued promotionally in association with the Beatles' 1964 USA Tour.  It was
incorrectly printed on the box, as you say, and a corrected model later came
out.  However, the Beatles stopped using harmonica in their tour, and the
result was the second, corrected version never got popular.  So, the more
valuable, IOW rarer, Beatles harmonica box is the corrected one, not the
original.

Bobbie