Re: [Harp-L] how much was a marine band when you started?

[Rick Davis <bluesharpamps@xxxxxxxxx>]

When I bought my first Marine Band harp in 1973 it cost $5.25 in a music
store in Wyoming...



On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Avery Man <elfrex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> and what was your first harmonica book?
>
> In 1987, a Marine Band or pre-MS Blues Harp was around $15 in NY.
>
> My first harmonica and book was Marcos' "Play Harmonica Instantly" which
> covered tablature, first and second position and very briefly third,
> vibratos (vibrati?), tongue blocking, blow and draw bends, train and basic
> tuning and maintenance. It came with a Hohner GLH and a cassete tape
> (remember those?). There was no internet.
>
> I really wanted to play along with the Sesame Street theme as a kid on
> that C harp (it was the original reason I bought the set) but no one
> was around to tell me that it was actually played on a chromatic
> harmonica by Toots Thielemans. I tried and i tried but I had to
> transpose and alter the melody since I wouldn't know about overblowing
> and overdrawing until 2004 (my heart nearly skipped a beat on my first
> middle register Bb the way Howard Levy said his did on his first bend).
> 20 years later, while watching the show with my nephew, I found Toots'
> interpretation of the theme is now gone :( and I needed youtube to find
> it and finally fufill a simple childhood dream of playing along to the
> opening and closing themes in the
> original key with a C harp (now armed with the Bb and C# I needed in
> the middle register or an Eb to play it in the lower and a
> self-customized Special 20).
>
>
>
> sesame street songs. look under Sesame Street Theme closing credits.
>
> http://members.tripod.com/tiny_dancer/sssounds.html#s
>
> My starting kit wasn't terrible at all but I will try to set up my nephew
> with something better.
>
>
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