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HARMONICA VIDEOS
These videos have been accumulated over the past 30 years, while I’ve been playing. I update the list periodically, so consider ‘bookmarking’ it, so you can refer to it again! ALL VIDEOS come in NTSC-VHS format, all in plain cardboard sleeves. (Please note: I do have the ability to supply the videos in PAL format, and SECAM as well! There will be a slight additional fee for this - $5 per video tape. I have to change my programming, and produce the tape differently. And then I have to specially check it, to be sure it came out properly. Of course, I check every video for that before I ship! So, if you want to order, but you can’t play NTSC-VHS, don’t let that stop you!) I guarantee the quality of my videos, and that you will be satisfied with the quality of them! CUSTOMER SERVICE is very important to me! I want you to be satisfied with any video(s) you get from me, because….I want you to come back for MORE!
** IF you purchase $100 worth of videos – any combination – you will get a 10% discount OFF your order! This is not just the first time! This is for any order!
*** IF you purchase $200 worth of videos – any combination – you will get a 20% discount OFF your order! Every time!
**** IF you have a video I don’t have, I will consider trading any 2 videos in this catalog – YOUR CHOICE! – for the one video you are offering! And I’ll pay the shipping costs to you as well!! This is my call, with due respect – I have to agree up front. I will ask you questions about what you have.
***** You can contact me through my new ‘chat group’ about this whole topic – harmonicavideos@yahoogroups.com
You are also welcome to join this group, and to post on it, about harmonica videos you have seen, and what you think of the content of it. What harmonica videos do you want to see? Which performers do you want to see on video?
****** I’ve also introduced a new ‘GRADING SYSTEM’, which is subjective, on my part, as a means of giving readers some comparative perspective on the musical content (CONTENT) of these videos, as I see it, and the video/audio quality (QUALITY) of these videos, IMHO (In My Humble Opinion). I try to be objective, but I’m only human!
Two grades for each video – CONTENT (A-C), and QUALITY (A-C). I will not offer any videos below a C grade. I try to be fair and realistic. But remember, I am bringing my own opinions into the gradings, not yours. We may not agree about some things. But hopefully, we all agree that harmonicas are a wonderful instrument, and that almost any video footage of great performers is better than NO video footage of those performers!
Shipping costs: now included in the price for shipping in the continental USA! Overseas shipping: 1st video $12.00 (airmail shipping), each additional video $2.00 more. That’s what it costs me.
I accept 2 forms of payment: PAYPAL, to: Jsteinberg@ucwphilly.rr.com or Jeremy_Steinberg76@hotmail.com
I can also be reached by e-mail at either address.
MONEY ORDERS can be mailed to:
JEREMY STEINBERG
P. O Box 13081
Philadelphia, PA 19101
If you have any questions, or any special requests, please let me know. Thanks for looking!
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BIG WALTER HORTON, LITTLE WALTER JACOBS, SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON (Rice Miller), HOWLIN’ WOLF, BIG MAMMA THORNTON – American Fold Blues Festival, 1965-1965. Very RARE FOOTAGE! B/W. Some grainy-ness, due to age of footage, but very watch-able! The footage of BIG WALTER HORTON, LITTLE WALTER, and SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON is wonderful!! Over an hour long!
$24.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY - B
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JUNIOR WELLS, MUDDY WATERS, and BUDDY GUY play The Blues in Montreux Jazz Festival, 1974!JUNIOR WELLS, MUDDY WATERS, and BUDDY GUY play The Blues in Montreux Jazz Festival, 1974! Many classics, including: Hoodoo Man Blues, Got My Mojo Working, The Same Thing, Messing With The Kid, Mannish Boy, more! Also with Bill Wyman on bass, Pinetop Perkins on piano! Nearly one hour long!
$24.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A
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PERFORMANCES – EDDIE GORDON on diatonic harmonica, DANNY WILSON on bass harmonica, AL SMITH on chord harmonica play various standards. Also a superb TRAIN RIFF by Eddie Gordon!! CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A
Then, CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE does a seminar on diatonics, playing blues, and discussing various positions (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.), using Lee Oskar diatonics (in a Lee OsKar imprinted case!)
And then DON LES and the HARMONICATS do a :45 minute concert! With Al Fiore on chord harmonica and Dick Bernard on double bass! Various standards include ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, ‘If I Were a Rich Man’, ‘Strangers in the Night’, ‘Peg o’My Heart’, a Parisienne medley, and an Italian medley! Some vaudeville thrown in too, including DICK BERNARD playing a ‘Little Lady’ completely in his mouth, NO HANDS! About 2 HRS!
$24.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A+ ; QUALITY – A-
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LARRY ADLER plays chromatic harmonica with JAMES GALWAY on FLUTE, and others! Various classical pieces, including Romanian Rhapsody #1, Sonata in A Major, Arabesque, Polonaise #1, and some Irish Jigs (!), among other music! From 1989! RARE!
$29.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A
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SUGAR BLUE with WILLIE DIXON, Johnny Watkins on guitar, Freddy Dixon on Bass! The incendiary speed blues of Sugar Blue! RARE video from 1992! Nearly 1 HOUR long! Songs include: I Think I Got The Blues, Crazy for My Baby, Gonna Rock This House Tonight, It Don’t Make Sense, more!
$24.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A
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TOMMY MORGAN and The ORIGINAL HARMONICA BAND, featuring DAVID McKELVEY! From 1986 SPAH convention! TOMY MORGAN discusses and plays various themes he contributed to TV shows (The Rockford Files, Green Acres, etc.) and Movies (Lillies of the Field, Winnie Pooh, Disney Movies, etc.)! Then, he plays Amazing Grace on a diatonic harmonica! And Chattanooga Choo Choo on a Hohner 270 C Chromatic – you gotta hear it to believe it!
And then….he plays a song with one harmonica after another used, one per stanza, picking them up and putting them back down WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT, using: Double-bass, 270 chromatic, blues harp, chord harp, polyphonia, single octave "little lady", and more! An unbelievable performance and feat!!
THEN, The ORIGINAL HARMONICA BAND does a vaudevillian-style concert, with all 6 members (including the dwarf) playing some kind of harmonica! The RUNS and ARTISTRY of DAVE McKELVEY on chromatic and diatonic harmonicas have to be heard to be believed, and even then, you won’t! How can somebody’s mouth and tongue even move that fast, let alone not make any mistakes??!! Absolutely incredible! About 2 HOURS long!
$29.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A+ ; QUALITY – A-
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CAREY BELL, PAUL OSCHER, and JERRY PORTNOY on HARMONICA
play the BLUES with MUDDY WATERS in CONCERT! Footage from 1968 to 1979! Songs include many of Muddy Waters’ classics, including: ‘Got My Mojo Working’, ‘Caldonia’, ‘Everything Gonna Be All Right’, ‘Honey Bee’, ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’,’ Blow, Wind Blow’, ‘Long Distance Call’, more! RARE, difficult-to-find footage of contemporary Masters of Blues Harmonica!!
$24.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY – A-
PAUL BUTTERFIELD in CONCERT. 1985. In Iowa. About 60 minutes! Vintage BUTTERFIELD! With ‘house’ band. Amplified, and some solo acoustic with his own piano accompaniment! RARE!!
$29.95 shipping included! CONTENT – A; QUALITY – A-
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PAUL BUTTER ith B.B. King and others! Also includes ERIC CLAPTON on guitar, Phil Collins on drums, Albert King on guitar, Stevie FIELD in Concert w Ray Vaughan on guitar (!), Etta James, Gladys Knight, and Bily Ocean singing! From 1987. BUTTERFIELD’s 2nd to LAST RECORDED CONCERT!! RARE!!
24.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B-
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PAUL BUTTERFIELD in CONCERT – His LAST concert, recorded LIVE, shortly after the B.B. King concert above! Butterfield died just DAYS later! About 1 hour! VERY RARE!!
$29.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B\
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CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE with John Lee Hooker! From 1981! Hear the now-deceased MASTER Singer/Guitarist (John Lee Hooker!) with the master harmonica player, Musselwhite!
$24.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A- ; QUALITY – B+
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JAMES COTTON, and SONNY TERRY HARMONICA with MUDDY WATERS! From 1966! Very RARE FOOTAGE! Includes many classics, including: ‘Got My Mojo Working’, ‘You Can’t Love What You Never Had’, ‘Tin Pan Alley’, ‘Crazy For My Baby’, more! About 1 HOUR. Color and B/W footage.
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TOOTS THIELEMANS in CONCERT! Great jazz harmonica, also with Fred on bass, and Adam Nussbaum on drums! Rare footage from Bourbon Street in New Orleans! About 1 HOUR!
$24.95 shipping included! CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A
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TOOTS THIELEMANS with PEGGY LEE!! 1966!! Extremely RARE B/W – TV Variety Show. Toots Thielemans accompanies Peggy Lee, the great jazz singer, on chromatic harmonica!! She’s at her sophisticated finest! He’s young, dark haired, and playful! First, he plays and whistles ‘Bluesette’, his original instrumental! Then he plays chromatic harmonica is a duet with Peggy Lee! Numerous other classics with a ‘who’s who’ of Jazz professional musicians at the time, including acoustic guitar, piano, bass, bongo drums, harp (stringed type!), trumpet, and more! 60 minutes altogether, about 10 minutes with Toots!
$19.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B+
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JUNIOR WELLS in Conert with Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy! RARE concert footage from 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland! Classics performed include: ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’, ‘Messing With The Kid’, ‘Hoodoo Man Blues’, ‘Got My Mojo Working’, more! Also with BILL WYMAN on bass, PINETOP PERKINS on piano, DALLAS TAYLOR on drums! Nearly 1 HOUR!
$24.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A-; QUALITY – B+
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GEORGE ‘HARMONICA’ SMITH in Concert with MUDDY WATERS
and Sammy Lawhorn on guitar, Pinetop Perkins on piano, Will Smith on drums. From 1973! RARE footage! CLASSIC Muddy Waters songs! About 1 HOUR!
$24.95 shipping included! CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B+
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HARMONICA REPAIR & MODIFICATION VIDEO, Volume 1 – How to customize your DIATONIC Harp! Subjects include: Tools, Fixing Stuck Reeds, Gapping, Tuning, Remounting Reed Plates and Covers! OVER AN HOUR LONG!! Make your harps play better, and learn a lot more about them at the same time!
$29.95 shipping included! CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A
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HARMONICA REPAIR & MODIFICATION VIDEO, Volume 2 – Customize your Diatonic Harp! Subjects include: Tool Review, Reed Replacement, Screw & Nut Reed Replacement, Advanced Techniques, Extreme Close-Ups of GAPPING, Reed Flattening, Beeswax and Turbo Tape for sealing, and to change pitch, Embossing the Reed Plates Tip Scooping, and Radical Reed Shaping! Learn about your diatonic harmonicas, and how to repair them, and enhance them, in detail! Over AN HOUR LONG!
$29.95 shipping included! CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A
***** BOTH REPAIR VIDEOS TOGETHER - $49.95!! SAVE $10!!!
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1989 HARMONICA CHAMPIONSHIPS in GERMANY! The world’s greatest DIATONIC and HARMONICA PLAYERS get together to compare ‘notes’!!
VOLUME 1 includes: Chromatic World Champion!; Claude Garden on diatonic!; Charlie Musselwhite on diatonic!; Larry Adler!; more! About 1 HOUR, 40 minutes! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING & UNBELIEVABLE HARMONICA PLAYING!! VERY RARE VIDEO!!
$29.95 including shipping! CONTENT – A+; QUALITY – A
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1989 HARMONICA CHAMPIONSHIPS in GERMANY!
More of the world’s greatest Diatonic and Chromatic HARMONICA PLAYERS perform!…
VOLUME 1 includes: Foreign sensational diatonic harmonica player Roland van Straaten, among others! Over :70 minutes of incredible playing!
VOLUME 2 includes: Larry Adler!; Jean ‘Toots’ Thielemans!; Charlie Musselwhite; Jerry Murad and the Harmonicats; more! About 90 minutes! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING & UNBELIEVABLE HARMONICA PLAYING!! AGAIN!! RARE VIDEO!!
$29.95 including shipping! CONTENT – A+; QUALITY – A
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1987 World Harmonica Championships in New Jersey!! The FIRST World Championships! Very RARE video! Includes various performing groups: Mendez Trio (Portugal), Ivan Richards Trio (UK), Vincent Van Rooyen Trio (S. Africa), Casa Mulgana Quartet (Spain), and Adler Trio (Israel). Larry Adler is mentioned as being in the audience, for the Adler Trio’s performance! Some great ensemble harmonica playing! 45 minutes.
$24.95 including shipping! CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B+
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HOWARD LEVY HARMONCA SUMMIT!!! A ‘Who’s Who’ of the diatonic harmonica players of the USA get together for a weekend!! Seminar discussions/demontrations include: playing in various positions, using various scales - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, through 12th positions! ALSO: BREATHING PATTERNS while playing diatonic harmonicas! ALSO: OVERBLOWS and OVERDRAWS! ALSO: harmonica practicing
GUEST HARMONICA PLAYERS in attendance included: JOE FILISKO (custom diatonic builder/master!, DENNIS GRUENLING (player of the year last 2 yrs!), CARLOS del JUNCO!, WINSLOW YERXA (former HIP publisher also!), ROB PAPAROZZI, KIRK JOHNSON, GEORGE BROOKS, SANDY WELTMAN, CHRIS MICHALEK, DOUG BREMSETH, DAVE PINZINO, JEFF GROSSBURG, BUZ Z KRANTZ, and more!! exercises! RARE VIDEO! 45 minutes.
$29.95 shipping included! CONTENT – A+; QUALITY - A
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BORRAH MINEVITCH & The HARMONICA RASCALS – with JOHNNY PULEO! Also LEO DIAMOND on CHROMATIC – an absolute wizard!!! LARRY CLINTON on chromatic with ‘The Philharmonics Orchestra’ – amazing playing! And others!!
EXTREMELY RARE video clips of these famous harmonica players! All B/W, from the 1930’s, 1940’s, 1950’s! Grainy footage, but very old!!
$29.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B-
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BORRAH MINEVITCH & The HARMONICA RASCALS – with JOHNNY PULEO! Another EXTREMELY RARE B/W video of clips of The Harmonica Rascals, with Johnny Puleo. In German, but the music isn’t! Slapstick comedy with absolutely incredible harmonica ensemble playing, complete with various solos! Short clips of several other ensemble harmonica instrumental groups as well! IMPOSSIBE-TO-FIND!!! About 20 minutes long. Unbelievable video – can’t say enough about it! Grainy footage, but very watch-able!!
$29.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B-
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PETE PEDERSEN & RON KALINA!! JAZZ DUETS, IMPROVISATIONS, DISCUSSIONS! Master chromatic harmonic players/performers PETE PEDERSEN and RON KALINA put on a jazz jam, tour-de-force, and educational discussion. Using Hohner CBH-2016, 280 C’s, 270’s, etc., they show how to expand standard musical structures with JAZZ improvisations on harmony.
They discuss scales, the blues progression, how to improvise, and the ranges of improvisation. And they proceed to play some magnificent jazz duets, playing off one another brilliantly, improvising effectively on the spot, and explaining the concepts behind the musical structures they employ.
You’ll never look at jazz the same way again! This will help you get to the next level, no matter where you currently are! A pair of master musicians clearly demonstrate extraordinary skills, and complete knowledge of musical theory! From 1987!!!
$29.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY – A-
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PERFORMANCES – Blues ‘Blow Off’, featuring: Greg ‘Fingers’ Taylor and Peter ‘Madcat’ Ruth!! Outrageously excellent harmonica!
$29.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY - A
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PERFORMANCES – featuring: Cham-Ber Huang (the chromatic wizard!) , Mr. Jia Hee, and Charlie McCoy! Wow!
$29.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY – A
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PERFORMANCES – ‘Jazz Showcase’, featuring: Sandy Weltman, Chris Michalek, Jeff Grossburg, Randy Singer, Rob Papaorozzi, Mike Turk! Part of the same incredible group of diatonic harp players on the Howard Levy harmonica seminar (!) also listed here!!
$29.95, including shipping! CONTENT – A; QUALITY – A
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LITTLE CHARLIE and The Nightcats 1992 LIVE CONCERT! Very RARE! About 90 minutes! Great blues, jazz, and funk!
$24.95 including shipping. CONTENT – B+ ; QUALITY – B-
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MAGIC DICK with the J. Geils Band – 1979 LIVE CONCERT in Germany! Includes ‘Whammer Jammer’!! Very RARE footage!
$29.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A-; QUALITY – B-
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KIM WILSON – 1993 in Germany – LIVE concert and 1994 LIVE CONCERT!! RARE footage! Great, classic blues harmonica from a master!!
$29.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B-
JUNIOR WELLS INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO! Shortly before his death! A discussion of the harmonica, Chicago Blues, and how he plays, with demonstrations! About an hour!
$24.95 including shipping. CONTENT – B+ ; QUALITY – B+
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BILLY BOY ARNOLD INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO! A discussion of the harmonica, Chicago Blues, and Southern Blues, including the styles of other famous harmonica players, like Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), and Sonny Terry, etc.
$24.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A; QUALITY – B+
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LARRY ADLER in a movie (!) – St. Martin’s Lane! From 1938! B/W. He acts (!) and plays chromatic harmonica! Also stars Vivian Leigh, Rex Harrison, and Charles Laughton. VERY RARE! Also known as Sidewalks of London (and I have BOTH versions!).
$19.95 including shipping. CONTENT – B; QUALITY – B
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ORBIS DUO 1999 DEMONSTRATION PERFORMANCE ! Excellent chromatic with harmonette performance! Then, harmonette with Little Lady performance! Great example of harmonette in use! 28 minutes.$19.95 including shipping. CONTENT – A- ; QUALITY – B
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CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE plays blues harmonica on All-Star Blues Band! Rare PBS TV special! A full hour long! 2000. Musselwhite in top form on diatonic!$19.95 including shipping!
NOTE: There are many harmonica-related LINKS for the amateur to expert harmonica player to use to advance his or her abilities, and knowledge of the instruments, the performers, the history, etc.
The more you know, the better you’ll get!! Be sure to check these out!..
www.harmonicalessons.com (great starter web site and ‘chat’ room! Even advanced players can learn here!)
www.eharmonica.net (the definitive history and present of harmonica players! Peter Krampert’s web site! To quote Mr. Krampert, as he says so simply, but eloquently in every day’s posting on harptalk.com, among other chat groups, "have fun and practice!". Find – and buy his book - The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica, published by Mel Bay Publications, 220 pages, pub. 2002. It’s a must read!!
harptalk@yahoogroups.com (a ‘chat’ group, based on yahoo.com – join there! – for serious performers, with theory and technique to match!)
www.tenhole.com (one of the best web sites to explain ‘overblows’, the diatonic-to-chromatic technique that Howard Levy has popularized, and is making famous!)
www.members.madafish.com/~harmonica/ (the Brendan Powers – Irish virtuoso & customizer) home page!)
www.harmonica.co.uk/magazine.htm (the United Kingdom harmonica magazine, and harmonica-players group – don’t limit yourself to just the USA! There are valuable resources across the world!)
www.members.chello.nl~a.daane/index1.htm (a Swedish harmonica master, with extensive experience and background! A very valuable and worthwhile resource!)
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hwy49/societys.html (a source for Australian blues societies that obviously include harmonica – very cool!)
www.angelfire.com/music/harmonica/harmonica-links.html (a great source of even more links!)
www.harmonicagame.com/ (a very cool game to work on your bends!)
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hwy49/societys.html (an Australian-based site!)
home.earthlink.net~romel (the home web page of Bill Romel, a Las Vegas-based retired machinist, repairer of chromatic harmonicas (he’s worked on mine numerous times!) and builder of custom-designed chromatic harmonicas! Very good and very reasonable!)
www.bobmeehan.net/custom_harmonicas.htm (a customizer of diatonic harmonicas, for optimal response, durability, and overblows! Similar to the famous Joe Filisko & associates, but with less ‘lead’ time.)
http://infandecustomharmonicas.com/ (diatonic & chromatic customizer and repairer, developer of the "Musette", the double chromatic for tremolo effect!)
www.southx.biz/dannecker/shopcustom.htm (the home web page of custom diatonic and chromatic harmonica builder Antony Dannecker, who builds and repairs the harmonicas of various professional harmonica players from across the world, including the now-deceased Larry Adler, one of my idols!)
www.SPAH.org (the International Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica! The greatest players in the world go to their conventions! The host and owner of harp-l, the ‘chat’ group!)
www.coast2coastmusic.com (a great site for buying all things harmonica-related!!! Also the owner of the ‘chat’ group harptalk@yahoogroups.com - JOIN, even if it’s just to read the posts and learn more than you already know! The owners play the harmonica!)
www.frfarrell.com (an excellent web site for buying various kinds of harmonicas! Very competitive prices!)
www.hohnerusa.com (the website of the dominant harmonica builder of the world! A great deal of information to offer! A must-see site!)
www.leeoskar.com (the home page of Lee Oskar diatonic harmonicas! A favorite of many players for their ‘out-of-the-box’ reed durability, as well as plastic combs (for air-tightness).
www.middlebury.net/lavoie/ (web site of developer of customized combs for harmonicas, and a long-time professional harmonica player. Other professional players rave about his combs. Made of titanium or Vermont maple wood. Gives diatonic harmonicas different sound qualities than the standard combs that the harps normally come with, out-of-the-box!)
www.harmonicamasterclass.com/tom’s.htm (great web site on rare microphones for use with harmonicas for amplified playing! Customized microphones, repaired microphones, etc!)
www.westf.demon.co.uk/harmpage.htm (home web page of the Microvox harmonica microphone! I have one and love it! Very small, very effective! I hold it between 2 fingers, at the base of the fingers! The head of this mic is smaller than the tip of my pinkie finger! Acoustic ‘cupping’ effects possible while playing amplied harp!)
Other harmonica manufacturers include: Hering, Huang, Suzuki, Weltmeister, just to name a few of the more popular ones. Google will help you find their web pages.
…and don’t stop here!! Go to the search engine www.google.com and enter various keywords (and keyword combinations) like: harmonica, diatonic, chromatic harmonica, harmonica players, and click on the links! Have a ball! "Reed" everything you can, and experiment with your harmonicas! The more you learn, the more you practice what you learn, the better you will get, and the more fun you will have, and the more you will want to practice! Give the ‘synergy’ a chance to happen! As I find more links I think of are interest, I’ll include them for you!
Go to www.yahoo.com, and join ‘chat groups’. Look up groups, then musical instruments, then harmonica, then browse, and pick which groups interest you! Try them! If you don’t like one, you can always un-subscribe. It’s as easy as subscribing in the first place!
Enjoy!! ‘The Harmonica Video Man’!
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