Re: [Harp-L] Re: Mystery depression-era harmonica (visual)
- To: HTownFess <Spschndr@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Mystery depression-era harmonica (visual)
- From: Joe Spiers <harpwrench@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 07:41:00 -0500
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It looks like a Marine Band; I'm seeing the cover lips like current harps (but the early, wider opening). Cool photo!
On Aug 7, 2012, at 3:15 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
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