Re: [Harp-L] Harp L: an ill wind



Ian Fleming used that wisecrack in Key Largo (if I remember correctly after reading it as a kid too long ago to measure), having James Bond say it of the clarinet, in banter calculated to put one of his captors off his guard (it worked). And Fleming probably didn't orignate it. Who knows how old it is?

Winslow

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--- On Sun, 7/4/10, MundHarp@xxxxxxx <MundHarp@xxxxxxx> wrote:

From: MundHarp@xxxxxxx <MundHarp@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Harp L: Chromatic versus Diatonic
To: Harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, July 4, 2010, 2:33 AM

Chromatic.
Diatonic.
WHO CARES??
It's just a mouth organ!
 
I have been told "It's an ILL WIND no one blows good.... The  harmonica!
 
But that was (probably) first said about the oboe....
 
John "Whiteboy" Walden
Cebu City
Philippines
 
PS
I love BOTH... And most every style of "Mund Harmonika"
John Walden






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