[Harp-L] Re: Harp-L Digest, Vol 105, Issue 26

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It appears to be a Hohner Echo Bell... still being made, but without the
> "horns" on the front.
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> Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 16:03:03 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Important Three Stooges Harmonica Question
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> 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.
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> David Payne
> www.elkriverharmonicas.com
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> Elk River Harmonicas Forum now available via Iphone app,
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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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> >
> > Elk River Harmonicas Forum now available via Iphone app,
> www.elkriverharmonicas.com/forum
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