Jazz harmonica master Richard Hunter was born on this day in 1952. Richard has been playing the harmonica since the late 1960's and wrote the Book "Jazz Harp"...
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Apr 1, 2002 12:53 pm
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DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT HARPS REV. DAN SMITH PLAYED? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Apr 1, 2002 4:38 pm
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I'd love to. I am looking forward to the time when I will be able to visit up there again. However, right now that time looks fairly far away. Also, be sure...
I like your answer, Bob. In fact, all of the answers are good because they all come from different directions. So I am going to add my two bits to this...
Harmonica genius Peter "Madcat" Ruth was born on this day in 1949. Madcat had been playing since the late 1960's, even taking some lessons from Big Walter...
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Apr 2, 2002 1:21 pm
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darrell mansfield did a tribute cd to rev dan smith [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Apr 2, 2002 2:26 pm
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Birthday Greeting s go out to fellow Harp-lister D.J. Morris, who was born on this day in 1947. D.J. plays both diatonic and chromatic and has an affinity...
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Apr 3, 2002 12:09 pm
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Does anyone know from personal knowledge or by listening to his CD's whether bluegrass harper George Thacker ("Blazing a New Trail") utilizes overblows?. Mark...
The godfather of Chicago Blues, Muddy Waters was born on this day in 1915. Waters began his musical life playing the harmonica, but switched to guitar as a...
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Apr 4, 2002 12:56 pm
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Does any of you use the Hohner CX12 Chromatic? I am not an expert but I have several diatonic 10 hole harmonicas that I have been learning on for about a...
I have a cx 12 they are air tight but i don't really like the way they sound and the round holes takes some getting use to. It is a nice harmonica though. But...
Well, to tell the truth I wasn't trying to sound completely like Charlie,
actually I just wanted to make one long bending note like him. It seems
almost...
Blues harmonica player Little Willie Foster was born on this day in 1922. Foster moved to Chicago around 1941 and learned to play the harmonica from Big Walter...
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Apr 5, 2002 9:58 am
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Hey, I just found the album I was looking for of Charlie McCoy playing the
Chromatic on the back of the cover. It's called "CHARLIE McCOY/THE REAL
McCOY" and...
ken i never knew that charlie played anything on chromatic. but what do i know lol I went to charlie's site and he has all the albums listed that he has put...
... From: Ken Farrier Date: Friday, April 05, 2002 02:49:34 PM To: bluegrassharp@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BluegrassHarp] CX12 Dave, I went to the site and...
Country music pioneer Vernon Dalhart was born on this day in 1883. Dalhart began his career as an operatic singer around 1910, but switched to Country music...
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Apr 6, 2002 1:11 pm
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Contemporary Christian harmonica player darrell Mansfield was born on this day in 1950. Darrell got into music after meeting Paul McCartney outside of a...
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Apr 7, 2002 1:41 pm
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Hi All, Awhile back Bob Meehan posted about the importance of knowing a lot of tunes and songs to really be accepted in the bluegrass community. That part I...
A good thing to do would be to write the tunes down one by one as you learn it. And go though the list every time you sit down to practice. After the list gets...
Hi Mark, and Everyone, I'm not a singer, but I often wonder how singers remember the words to so many songs, but if they have a knack for it, they can just do...
Bob Meehan
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Apr 8, 2002 4:36 am
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We have two birthdays of list members to celebrate today. hal Iwan was born on this day in 1950 and Tomaloney was born on this day in 1982. Congratulations to...
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Apr 8, 2002 12:24 pm
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For any fans of Mark Graham or old-time music I can heartily recommend "Thought I Heard It Blow" by Mark Graham (on harmonica) and Tom Sauber (on banjo). They...
Country music pioneer John McGhee was born on this day in 1882. McGhee recorded over 250 songs during his career from the 1920's through the 1930's, mostly...
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Apr 9, 2002 11:20 am
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I just got off of the phone with Astatic and here is the scoop on the future of the JT30 microphone: They just shipped the last 10 of the PMC127 elements and...
Chicago Blues singer and harmonica player John Brim was born on this day in 1922. After moving to Chicago in 1945, he worked with John Lee "Sonny Boy" ...
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Apr 10, 2002 12:24 pm
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Blues harmonica player Jimmy Watos, also known as "Daddy Stovepipe", was born on this day in 1867. He was a regular at Chicago's Maxwell street Market for...
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Apr 11, 2002 11:57 am
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Here is a news story I thought was worth sharing with the group. Harmonica player heads fundraising mission to help needy kids use music as an outlet get the...
