Re: [Harp-L] Cross Harp

["Tom Muck" <tmuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is my own sad story about harp names. When I first started playing many 
years ago I picked up various Marine Bands and could not get them to sound 
bluesy. As hard as I tried, I could not play blues in E on an E harmonica. I 
gave up, but tried several times over the years. Then I saw that I was 
playing the wrong harmonica. I heard about the "Blues Harp. I thought if I 
bought a "Blues Harp" I would be set. So I got one in G to play along with a 
song in G and still couldn't figure it out. I was ready to give up again but 
got a book on harmonica. I read about 2 paragraphs into the book where it 
mentioned cross harp. Then the light bulb went off and I've been playing 
ever since. These days that would have never happened because I would just 
Google it.

Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fernando Bresslau" <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "harp-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Cross Harp


> Hi Bob,
>
> the Cross Harp has oficially never been offered labeled in second
> position. But it is quite possible that, in the beginning, incorrect
> advertising has been made, by Hohner or, more probably, by some
> dealer/distributor/shop. Anyway, it is important now that it be clear
> that Cross Harps are labeled in first position.
>
> Why Cross Harp if it labeled as any other harmonica? Well, just
> because it is a catchy name which works very well for a diatonic
> harmonica model :-)
>
> All the best,
> Fernando
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