RE: [Harp-L] cornball harp, but what kind of harp or harp device?

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

The lead harmonica player in the sequence, Dorus, is a Charlie
Chaplin-like character who appears in several other Dutch-language
comedy sequences that are linked to this Youtube video. He's speaking
Dutch fluently in a voice that is not Jerry's. At least one of the
others has harmonica in the soundtrack, so the link to harmonica may go
beyond the simple comic opportunity afforded by mimicking a harmonica
trio. Though he also mimics playing a tiny toy accordion (that sounds
suspciously like a harmonica) in another video.

Galloping Comedians was a staple of harmonica groups back then, and
Dorus and company may have been miming to a recording by the Cats or by
one of many other harmonica groups - maybe even a Dutch one. (Is Art
Daane out there to answer this one?)

By the way, here's another version of the "Galloping Comedians" video
where you can more clearly see the broom bristles on the right-hand
harmonica.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI2zwJOYjSE

Winslow

--- John Balding <John.Balding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The song "Galloping Comedians" was by Jerry Murad and the
> Harmonicats.
> I'm 99.9% sure that was them playing it "in disguise" on the video. I
> can't be sure, but if "the guys on the outside" are playing as usual,
> they are playing a bass harp and a chord harp to back up the
> "chromatic
> in the middle".
> I am sure someone will have the definitive answer, but my money is on
> the Harmonicats.
> 
> John Balding
> Tallahassee, FL
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of John Kerkhoven
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:25 PM
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Harp-L] cornball harp, but what kind of harp or harp
> device?
> 
> An old, cornball harp-comedy clip where the actors are certainly not
> playing
> the music.
> 
> But what are the two guys on the outside playing (or pretending to
> play)?
> Are these harmonicas with some sort of attachment to project the
> sound?
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS5cQSZn8mQ
> 
> John
> Montreal
> 
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