[Harp-L] Re: Mystery depression-era harmonica (visual)

[HTownFess <Spschndr@xxxxxxx>]

The wonderfully evocative photo linked below at first had me thinking the 
man on the left was playing a Hotz model like an Atta Boy or Harmonica King 
that had covers like the old handmade Blues Harp, but now I think it is 
probably a prewar Marine Band whose coverplates are a little beat down by 
hard living. Would anyone venture a positive ID? It's a high-res photo, so 
blow it up and guess away. And what kind of song do you think they're 
playing, given his position on the harp and the guitar fingering? Is it an 
old standard (to us) with the harp possibly held upside down, or maybe some 
blues?
 
1936 photo <http://www.shorpy.com/node/13435?size=_original>
 
Stephen Schneider