Harmonicas?

[mcblink]

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:

I'll have one large salmon snake, please

 

[mcblink]

Yuck ... second-hand harmonicas ... you can clean them but you have to taken them completely apart and rebuild them

Yeah. That's a pretty gross thing when you think about it. It's one of the reasons I don't let my kids play with mine. They can have their own slobbery-ass mouth harps lol

 

[Dave Sloven]

At least they are cheap enough that you can buy all the kids their own

 

[jtcnj]

Another thing I havent had time for.
I started learning some basics a few years back.
Have the interest.

 

[aon]

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