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

[Robert Rowe <robertrowe2@xxxxxxx>]

Guitar - E7 chord, I-chord for a lot of blues tunes. Harp player is on the low end of the harp, which fits well with my blues fantasy...  No clue what the harp might be. 

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On Aug 7, 2012, at 4:15 AM, HTownFess <Spschndr@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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