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

["Tom Klingl" <tom.klingl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In 1980 a SP20 was about 10 Deutschmarks in Munich. Some smaller
musicstores gave generous discounts when I bought more than 5...

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Rogers [mailto:bullfrog9@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 2:38 PM
> To: Avery Man
> Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] how much was a marine band when you started?
> 
> 
> I believe my first M.B. was fifty cents.  No books.
> 
> Bullfrog
> 
> Avery Man 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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