Re: [Harp-L] JOHN SEBASTIAN(JR)"WOODSTOCK TOOT"

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

He's playing a Db-harp for the whole thing. About 1:40 he goes from
playing it in second position (home chord is the draw chord, key of Ab)
to playing in first position (home chord is the blow chord, Db).



Anyone who thinks they can identify precisely which model of harmonica
he was playing just from the sound of it is probably fooling
themselves. That said, the most widely available models of diatonic
10-hole available at the time would have been the Hohner Marine Band
and Blues harp models, which in those days were the same harmonica with
different covers. So there's a good change that he was playing a Blues
Harp. But no-one except the player himself could tell you that for
certain.



Winslow

--- On Wed, 7/9/08, Harold Spewak <Eikcam55@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Harold Spewak <Eikcam55@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] JOHN SEBASTIAN(JR)"WOODSTOCK TOOT"
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 9:18 PM

There is a "new"old show from 1979 posted at:
http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/dt/john-sebastian-concert/ 
20049880-3540.html?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=080709
(you might have to register @wolfgangsvault.com to listen)

Besides all of the great pickin 'and singing ,there is a nice harp   
instrumental  included called "Woodstock Toot"
Can anyone with a much more trained ear than mine confirm my hunches  
that:
1)He is playing a Hohner Blues Harp (and is that  his main "axe" for 

blues playing throughout the years)2\
2)Also-on this tune  do you think he's playing 2 harps
Thanks in advance!
Mackie
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