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mcblink
Ambassador of Riffs & Spliffs
Hell yeah it was!
I might make the mrs watch it with me soon
Harmonicas?
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I might make the mrs watch it with me soon
Harmonicas make my skin crawl.
They're cheap and widely available. Most sold are the equivalent of a $25 guitar.
Pure junk incapable of playing in tune.
Even worse, drunks with harmonicas that think they should accompany every song played at bars.
I have seen many relieved of their harmonicas, and or escorted out of bars.
Everyone thinks they're Magic Dick once they get into the brown liquor.
Even the pro harp blowers are sometimes hard to listen to.
Overdriving the snot out of tiny amps and blowing the same riff over and over makes for sure fire ear fatigue.
The only local harp player that sounds even halfway decent uses a four 10 Bassman for an amp.
It's thunderous tone, but the same old riffs grate on your every last nerve.
Open jams are the absolute worst, they bring the closet harp blowers out of the closet and put em on center stage.
it's always ugly and painful. Like a hungry hawk and a flock of baby ducks.
Sorry for the rant but I had to get that off my chest.
I feel better now. Thanks.
They're cheap and widely available. Most sold are the equivalent of a $25 guitar.
Pure junk incapable of playing in tune.
Even worse, drunks with harmonicas that think they should accompany every song played at bars.
I have seen many relieved of their harmonicas, and or escorted out of bars.
Everyone thinks they're Magic Dick once they get into the brown liquor.
Even the pro harp blowers are sometimes hard to listen to.
Overdriving the snot out of tiny amps and blowing the same riff over and over makes for sure fire ear fatigue.
The only local harp player that sounds even halfway decent uses a four 10 Bassman for an amp.
It's thunderous tone, but the same old riffs grate on your every last nerve.
Open jams are the absolute worst, they bring the closet harp blowers out of the closet and put em on center stage.
it's always ugly and painful. Like a hungry hawk and a flock of baby ducks.
Sorry for the rant but I had to get that off my chest.
I feel better now. Thanks.
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mcblink
Ambassador of Riffs & Spliffs
You're quite welcome, glad to help!Harmonicas make my skin crawl.
They're cheap and widely available. Most sold are the equivalent of a $25 guitar.
Pure junk incapable of playing in tune.
Even worse, drunks with harmonicas that think they should accompany every song played at bars.
I have seen many relieved of their harmonicas, and or escorted out of bars.
Everyone thinks they're Magic Dick once they get into the brown liquor.
Even the pro harp blowers are sometimes hard to listen to.
Overdriving the snot out of tiny amps and blowing the same riff over and over makes for sure fire ear fatigue.
The only local harp player that sounds even halfway decent uses a four 10 Bassman for an amp.
It's thunderous tone, but the same old riffs grate on your every last nerve.
Open jams are the absolute worst, they bring the closet harp blowers out of the closet and put em on center stage.
it's always ugly and painful. Like a hungry hawk and a flock of baby ducks.
Sorry for the rant but I had to get that off my chest.
I feel better now. Thanks.
Kinda agree though, there's a time and place for everything. Too much of anything isn't good.
flatrockmobile
Well-Known Member
I've got a few Hohner Blues Harps in a drawer. Haven't played them in ages. I used them on a few songs in the early 80's and haven't visited them much since. Never got the blow bending but the draw bending was easy on these. I kinda thought about it like I was pulling the note down my throat.
TVvoodoo
Ambassador of The Comfortably Slung
I play a little harp, I'm fully guilty of a lot of harp misuses, because I like the brown liquor too.
The way I learned to play harp enough to want to keep doing it is
#1 get that blues jamtrack going in the proper key for the harmonica you have, throw a mic into an amp and have at 'er. It's really fun quite a "blast".
#2 get one of those neckbrace holders and blow while you randomly cowboy chord it up on your guitar. That's fun too. Get your Neil Young on.
Heart of Gold is a real easy song, and sound great with the harp accompaniment
Most of my harp practice came when in my younger days I would do a little busking. Actually made a some money at it, too. Outside the liquor store at quitting time on payday. Yessiree! Double your money if its a Friday.
When your voice is giving out, you can blow harp for five minutes to give it a rest, and still be able to draw a few bucks.
But yeah, harp players can be real annoying. 100%. Still worth learning.
The way I learned to play harp enough to want to keep doing it is
#1 get that blues jamtrack going in the proper key for the harmonica you have, throw a mic into an amp and have at 'er. It's really fun quite a "blast".
#2 get one of those neckbrace holders and blow while you randomly cowboy chord it up on your guitar. That's fun too. Get your Neil Young on.
Heart of Gold is a real easy song, and sound great with the harp accompaniment
Most of my harp practice came when in my younger days I would do a little busking. Actually made a some money at it, too. Outside the liquor store at quitting time on payday. Yessiree! Double your money if its a Friday.
When your voice is giving out, you can blow harp for five minutes to give it a rest, and still be able to draw a few bucks.
But yeah, harp players can be real annoying. 100%. Still worth learning.
Alright...first off...I do not have tiny hands...I have inherited a rather large harmonica...
LOOK! There’s a cat head in there for scale too!
This thing has been in my family for, easily, over a century...l can’t play it for s#!t though....
edit: yep...that date is 1876...dunno how much weight it holds...l got it from my grandmother who always told me that it(and my banjo) belonged to her uncle...
LOOK! There’s a cat head in there for scale too!
This thing has been in my family for, easily, over a century...l can’t play it for s#!t though....
edit: yep...that date is 1876...dunno how much weight it holds...l got it from my grandmother who always told me that it(and my banjo) belonged to her uncle...
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Very cool.Alright...first off...I do not have tiny hands...I have inherited a rather large harmonica...
LOOK! There’s a cat head in there for scale too!
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This thing has been in my family for, easily, over a century...l can’t play it for s#!t though....
edit: yep...that date is 1876...dunno how much weight it holds...l got it from my grandmother who always told me that it(and my banjo) belonged to her uncle...
Wilhelm Thie Double Harmonica
This harmonica was made by Wilhelm Thie in Vienna, Austria, around 1875-1880, and sold by the J. Howard Foote Company in New York and Chicago. It is a…
Amp Mad Scientist
Ambassador of Heresy
A bunch of cannibals who play...harmonica?
Amp Mad Scientist
Ambassador of Heresy
Harmonicas and cannablism have long been closely associated...Harmonicas make my skin crawl.
They're cheap and widely available. Most sold are the equivalent of a $25 guitar.
Pure junk incapable of playing in tune.
Even worse, drunks with harmonicas that think they should accompany every song played at bars.
I have seen many relieved of their harmonicas, and or escorted out of bars.
Everyone thinks they're Magic Dick once they get into the brown liquor.
Even the pro harp blowers are sometimes hard to listen to.
Overdriving the snot out of tiny amps and blowing the same riff over and over makes for sure fire ear fatigue.
The only local harp player that sounds even halfway decent uses a four 10 Bassman for an amp.
It's thunderous tone, but the same old riffs grate on your every last nerve.
Open jams are the absolute worst, they bring the closet harp blowers out of the closet and put em on center stage.
it's always ugly and painful. Like a hungry hawk and a flock of baby ducks.
Sorry for the rant but I had to get that off my chest.
I feel better now. Thanks.
OP
mcblink
Ambassador of Riffs & Spliffs
Umm....well, I don't exactly remember if there was harmonicas in that movie as it's been a while now since I watched it, but I do remember thinking it was a pretty good movie
I think that might be discussed in movie Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death.
Clockworkmike
Ambassador of STACKS in WV SHACKS
I recently checked that film out. I liked it a lot, you dont see many horror westerns when you think about it lol the scene with the guy upside down that gets "bone tomahawked" from groin to throat is a bit rough
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Beagle
Ambassador of Slippin' and a Slidin'
They were called mouth organs here, or gob irons...
aon
Well-Known Member
If you deconstruct the Finnish word and translate the parts separately, you get "lip harp", which is a good word for it I think. We have some other excellent compound words as well...
Having fun playing mine, most of the time I can avoid either running out of breath or feeling like my lungs are exploding now. Still having occasional problems with single notes, especially 2 draw and maybe 10 draw. Sometimes I manage to get a very high pitch out of 10D that scares the cats. Anyway, maybe next week I'll start working on bends and such once I've finished the last few licks on the basic lessons I'm working on now.
Been listening to quite a lot of Little Walter:
Dave Sloven
Ambassador of DOOM!
Yuck ... second-hand harmonicas ... you can clean them but you have to taken them completely apart and rebuild them
