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

["Ludo Beckers" <lazylew@xxxxxxxxx>]

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The
harmonica-group may have been the Hotcha Trio?
They were from The Netherlands (or Holland, if you want) like the
Rotterdammer Dorus, and were popular there in the late fifties.

The clip is from Dutch tv, sometime early sixties, recorded in his
cabaret-club Saint Germain des Prés (an emulation a Parisian interior)
It is one of my very first remembrances of hearing a harmonica and it brings
back fond memories.

Dorus wasn't merely a Chaplin-imitator at all, but a great comedian in his
own right.
Many of his texts were also censured by television makers at the time, for
being too controversial.
One song that did slip through this practise is "De Krokus en de Hyacint",
where he sings of the love between a crocus and a hyacinth, who end up
having a beautiful baby with an original tint of skin.

Ludo