[Harp-L] Harmonicas Shipped to Troops in Iraq, Afghanistan

[Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16612746&ft=1&f=3

Morning Edition, November 26, 2007 · Herb Shriner, the 1950s homespun 
humorist, once started a harmonica orchestra. This holiday season, 
Shriner's sons have decided to donate 400 of their late father's harmonicas 
to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The treasure trove of vintage 
harmonicas ? all of the "Marine Band" model ? had been in a Florida 
warehouse. As son Wil Shriner told the Sun-Sentinel: Harmonicas are easy to 
pick up and play, and it sure beats sending tubas.