Re: [Harp-L] "Oh Girl" position



Sound like a chromatic to me, too, though it could be a diatonic. Either way it sounds like first position.

I caught the lip-sychned video by chance last night on some oldies program hosted by Aretha Franklin. The guy hold a harmonica kept making these illogical wide moves or a large harmonica. When I first saw it I thought "Oh, a CBH 2016," which would have been right for the period. But further viewing revealed this not to be the case, and as I noticed the "player" going from one end of the harmonica to the other to play notes that were in the same hole, I realized that, once again, the largest harmonica available for display purposes had been pressed into service as a prop.

Winslow Yerxa
Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
Harmonica instructor, The Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance
Resident expert, bluesharmonica.com
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--- On Sun, 9/19/10, Gary Lehmann <gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Gary Lehmann <gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] "Oh Girl" position
To: "harp-l" <Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010, 9:01 PM

This clip is lip synched to the original recording.
So it's not much help to our quest to determine the instrument in question.
Does sound like a chrom to me!



      


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