Re: [Harp-L] Important Three Stooges Harmonica Question

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure, it was all in fun and all, but I was hoping that somebody could ID the harmonica Curly is playing. The one you see. The one you hear, by the way, in the actual Stooge soundtrack is a valved Richter chromatic. 
 
David Payne
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On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:06 PM, David Payne
<dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At the Elk River Institute of Harmonica Studies, we have done considerable research into Three Stooges harmonica useage. This is important stuff we are doing and junk. We have slaved over numerous Stooges shorts for more than three decades to find harmonicas in them. These are the sacrifices we make.
> For instance, in the short, "Disorder in the Court" Moe plays his harmonica in such a way we are convinced Moe traveled forward in time so Michael Rubin could teach him how to do it.
> The short we present today is "Dutiful but Dumb," in which the Stooges are on a secret suicide mission to Vulgaria. To elude Vulgarian authorities, Curly hides inside a floor-model radio, destroying the radio's innards in the process. When the Vulgarian authorities turn the radio on, nothing happens, but before they can check the vacuum tubes, Curly pulls this harmonica out and starts playing it. It is a very interesting harmonica with bells and trumpets, it's a huge thing that he carries in his jacket pocket - which also had a three-foot-long cigar in it.
> We are now seeking to identify this harmonica and present the video evidence to the public, in the same way NASA has the public browse through photographs of space to look for asteroids and stuff. This is just as important. We hope that someone will be able to identify this harmonica. Our original hypothesis was it was made by Weiss in Vienna. Although the shorts department at Columbia had a huge vault of cool stuff - and who knows how long it could have been there, this short was made in a decade after Weiss went out of business.
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> Here it is.
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-NmHuqWWE&feature=relmfu
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> also, you see the harmonica from that scene also in the Three Stooges Whammer Jammer.
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX2PyfDAFvA
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> David Payne
> www.elkriverharmonicas.com
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