Other uses Harmonika disambiguation Infobox Instrument name Harmonica names image 16 hole chrom 10 hole diatonic.jpg image capt A 16 hole chromatic top and 10 hole diatonic harmonica background other classification ... chromatic harmonica C below Middle C C to the D above C5 slightly over 4 octaves small related ... The harmonica , also called harp, French harp, blues harp , and mouth organ , ref cite web first B last Willy title Harmonica 101 url http www.davidpatrone.com Literature Harmonica101.htm ref is a free ... types of harmonica the pre tuned reed can be changed bending a note to another note by redirecting ... mounted on the comb of a diatonic harmonica. The basic parts of the harmonica are the comb , reed ... simple harmonicas and a hair comb . Harmonica combs were traditionally made from wood , but now are usually ... high end instruments . ref name mid http middlebury.net interesting lavoie.html Mark Lavoie Harmonica ... of the harp. While the comb material does have a slight influence over the sound of the harmonica ... book author Weinstein, Randy F. and William Melton title The Complete Idiot s Guide to Playing the Harmonica ... quality of the harmonica. There are two types of cover plates traditional open designs of stamped ..., in the traditional slider based chromatic harmonica it is essential to the functioning of the instrument ... harmonica. Amplification devices Since the 1950s, many blues harmonica players have amplified their instrument ... of this approach was Marion Little Walter Jacobs, who played the harmonica near a Bullet microphone marketed for use by radio Taxicab Dispatching taxi dispatchers . This gave his harmonica tone a punchy ... in microphones. Rack or holder Harmonica players who play the instrument while performing on another ... to position the instrument in front of their mouth. A harmonica holder clamps the harmonica between ... Harmon , Neil Young , Eddie Vedder , Bruce Springsteen and blues singer Jimmy Reed . Harmonica types Chromatic harmonica Main chromatic harmonica Image Chromonica.jpg thumb left Hohner Super Chromonica ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 The Harmonica Gentlemen was a TRIO consisting of George Fields chromatic harmonica , Leo Friedman chord harmonica , and Don Ripps bass harmonica . They are largely remembered now for recording with The Andrews Sisters and Danny Kaye . George Fields had a solo career as harmonicist and is best known for his harmonica solo Moon River in Henry Mancini s score for Breakfast at Tiffany s Music from the Motion Picture Breakfast at Tiffany s . Donn Ripps was a former member of the Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals the Cappy Barra Harmonica Gentlemen The Harmonica Boys and last The Harmonica Ripples . Leo Friedman was a former Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals and performed in the movie Topman in 1943 when Sammy Ross had replaced Johnny Puleo . DEFAULTSORT Harmonica Gentlemen Category American instrumental musical groups US band stub ... more details
Diatonic harmonica refers to various kinds of single key harmonica gallery Image Suzuki Humming.png Tremolo harmonica . In Asia, diatonic usually refer to this type. Image Gaitas.jpg Blues harp , also known as 10 hole harmonica. In United States and Europe, diatonic usually refer to this type. Image Octave harmonica.jpg Octave harmonica gallery disambig Category harmonica ru ... more details
orphan date April 2010 Wikify date April 2010 Harmonica World is the magazine published by the National Harmonica League for distribution to its members six times a year. Image HWJune08s.jpg Harmonica World June July 2008 . External links http www.harmonica.co.uk www.harmonica.co.uk National Harmonica League web site http www.harmonica.co.uk magazine.htm www.harmonica.co.uk magazine.htm Harmonica World Magazine web site Category British music magazines Category Magazines with year of establishment missing ... more details
Harmonica blues is used to describe any style of blues music that features the harmonica player also known as blues harp as the central performer. Musicians that perform in the genre do not necessarily always play the instrument, but instead might just perform or have performed regularly with a harmonica player. References Allmusic class explore id style d518 pure url yes allmusic.com Harmonica blues Category Blues music genres ... more details
File Chromonica.jpg thumb right 260px A chromatic harmonica Since the 1940s, a number of concerto s as well as non concerto works have been written for the harmonica , both as a solo instrument as well ..., full orchestra, band, or similar large ensemble. Nearly all harmonica concertos are composed for the chromatic harmonica , with the exception of the 2001 concerto for the diatonic harmonica by Howard Levy . File LarryAdler.jpg thumb right 130px The American classical harmonica soloist Larry Adler 1914 2001 , for whom many composers wrote harmonica concertos Such works include Malcolm Arnold Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra Arnold Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra , Op. 46 1954 composed for Larry Adler Milton Barnes composer Milton Barnes Concerto for Harmonica and Strings composed for Tommy Reilly Arthur Benjamin Harmonica Concerto 1953 composed for Larry Adler Robert Russell Bennett ... Fantasy 1956 composed for Larry Adler Henry Cowell Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra 1962 composed for John Sebastian Norman Dello Joio Concertino for Harmonica and Orchestra 1948 composed for John Sebastian Brett Deubner Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra Leo Diamond Skin Diver Suite 1956 Robert Farnon Prelude and Dance for Harmonica and Orchestra 1966 for Tommy Reilly Walter Girnatis Concertino Sigmund Groven Legends, for Harmonica and Strings 2003 Richard Hayman Concerto 1978 Hugo ... Jacob Divertimento 1957 composed for Larry Adler Gordon Jacob Five Pieces for harmonica and piano 1957 also arranged for harmonica and orchestra composed for Tommy Reilly Gordon Jacob Introduction ... for Harmonica and Orchestra 2008, for Sigmund Groven George Kleinsinger Street Corner Concerto 1942 composed for John Sebastian Karl Heinz K per Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra, Op. 12 1961 composed for Tommy Reilly Oddvar S.Kvam Colours, for Harmonica and Strings 1996, for Sigmund Groven Serge Lancen Concerto 1958 composed for Larry Adler Alan Langford Concertante for Harmonica and Strings ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2007 Harmonica is a comic book character that appeared in the Malibu Comics Ultraverse series The Solution comics The Solution . ref The Solution 3 November 1993 ref Little was known about the man known as Harmonica, except that he was enacting a vendetta against Darkur Ultraverse comics the Darkur , a race of shape changing warriors from the Godwheel . Whatever the reason, he consistently eradicated any Darkurian he encountered. Outrage comics Outrage of The Solution comics the Solution met him years ago and barely escaped with his life. Upon their second meeting, though they fought, Harmonica was surprised that Outrage tried to talk him out of fighting. No other Darkurian had ever tried. Harmonica next appeared on the Wold, a land on the Godwheel, to destroy an alien weapon, the Vorlexx. The Solution possessed the device and intended to use it to rescue Shadowmage comics Shadowmage from The Vyr Ultraverse comics the Vyr , a powerful group of evil sorcerers. Harmonica teamed up with the Solution, and soon they found themselves between the Darkurian and Aerwa Ultraverse comics Aerwna elf like enemies of the Darkur armies, both of whom were seeking the Vorlexx as well. The group managed to teleport themselves away into the enclave of the Vyr, where they proved to be nothing more than annoyances to the sorcerers. The Solution managed to rescue Shadowmage, but lost the Vorlexx. Facing the might of the Vyr, Harmonica and the Solution escaped to earth through a teleportational breach that Harmonica created. Harmonica parted ways with the Solution, leaving them in New York. Black September After the Ultraverse Black September Black September Event, which changed the Ultraverse s reality, Harmonica s whereabouts were unknown. References references Category Comics characters introduced in 1993 Category Malibu Comics characters Category Ultraverse tl Harmonica komiks ... more details
Multiple issues unreferenced April 2009 advert July 2009 notability July 2009 orphan December 2010 The Electric Harmonica can be said to have been invented by Richard Smith of Harmonix Harmonicas as he is the inventor and holder of the world wide patent s to place a microphone inside the instrument. Although there have been other mechanical arrangements for holding sound pick up devices to amplify the sound of the instrument, this design is the first to create space within the body of the instrument to hold both microphone and associated electronics . External links http www.harmonix harmonica.com Official site DEFAULTSORT Harmonica Electric Category Harmonica ... more details
Image John browning slide gun.jpg frame A replica of John Browning s slide gun on display in the John Browning home and gun shop museum in Nauvoo, Illinois Nauvoo . A harmonica gun or slide gun is a form of percussion cap percussion firearm which was breech loading weapon breech loaded with a steel slide, containing a number of chambers bored in it. Each chamber contained a separate primer, powder charge, and projectile. The slide was inserted in an opening in the breech action and could be advanced by releasing the camlock, moving the slide by hand. The most famous maker of harmonica guns was Jonathan Browning , father of John Moses Browning . Commencing in 1834 in Quincy, Illinois Quincy , Illinois , he began to make harmonica guns and more conventional revolver revolving rifles . He continued to improve on the principle after his conversion to Mormonism and emigration to Nauvoo, Illinois, and finally Ogden, Utah Ogden , Utah . See also Muzzleloader External links http www.muzzleblasts.com archives vol2no4 articles mbo24 2.shtml Jonathan Browning, Mormon gunsmith Nov 6 2008 http good times.webshots.com album 564193113IzsjJo More Pictures of a Harmonica Gun http underhammers.blogspot.com 2009 07 wades at it again ingrhams underhammer.html Example of a Harmonica Rifle Category Firearm actions ... more details
There are numerous techniques available for harmonica . A few are described here. For details of how to do such techniques, visit the Harmonica wikibook. wikibooks Harmonica Bending and other techniques In addition to the 19 notes readily available on the diatonic harmonica, players can play other notes ... characteristic of much blues harp and country harmonica playing. Bending on a guitar bends the pitch upward. However, typically bending on a harmonica means the pitch falls downward. Bends are essential for most blues and rock harmonica due to the soulful sounds the instrument can bring out. The famous ... the entire chromatic scale using a diatonic harmonica. This has allowed diatonic harmonica players ... or customised harmonicas. Any harmonica can be set up for better overbending. The primary needs are tight ... on the sides of the reed plate slots towards the reed. While these modifications make the harmonica overbend more easily, overbending is often possible on stock diatonic harmonica, especially ... who use precise overbends and bends to play the diatonic harmonica as a fully chromatic ... any melody in any key within a three octave range on a C diatonic harmonica, most harmonica players ..., register and dynamics of a given melody to a harmonica. Thus, the common practice is still ... songs. As for harmonica players who play mostly classical or jazz music, most would rather ... during play. Positions In addition to playing the diatonic harmonica in its original key ... e.g. playing in D Dorian or G mixolydian on a C Major harmonica , but techniques such as bending enable different modes to be used at each position e.g. playing in E mixolydian on a C Major harmonica . Harmonica players especially blues players have developed a set of terminology around different ... harmonicas. The first three positions cover the vast majority of harmonica playing, and these positions ... the harmonica as it was intended, in its main major key. On a diatonic, starting note is hole ... more details
Infobox musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians Name Harmonica Frank Img Commented out because image was deleted Image Harmonica Frank.jpg thumb Harmonica Frank on cover of Adelphi AD 1023 Img ... 10 11 mf y br small Blanchester, Ohio Blanchester , Ohio , United States small Origin Instrument Harmonica ... Records Barrelhouse Associated acts URL Current members Past members Notable instruments Harmonica ... American blues singer, guitarist and harmonicist . Biography Early life, performing technique Harmonica ... taught himself to play harmonica when he was 10 years old, and he eventually learned guitar as well ... switching from humorous hillbilly ballads to deep country blues. With his self taught harmonica ... brace. While also playing guitar, he perfected a technique of manipulating the harmonica with his mouth while he sang out of the other side. He could also play harmonica with his nose and thus ... s partner Noah Lewis . Early recordings After years of performing on the medicine show circuit, Harmonica ... Daddy The Great Medical Menagerist in 1954. Harmonica Frank thus became the first white people white ... sensation, so he was excited to record and produce Harmonica Frank. fact date April 2008 It was ultimately ... and rockabilly . Rediscovery, legacy and death Harmonica Frank s songs appeared on many all black blues ... as metaphors six musicians, one of whom was Harmonica Frank. Frank Floyd died in Blanchester, Ohio ... March 25, 2008 , Greil Marcus External links Allmusic class artist id p76658 label Harmonica Frank http www.wirz.de music harmfran.htm Illustrated Harmonica Frank discography http www.cdbaby.com cd hfrankfloyd Harmonica Frank Floyd The Missing Link , essay by Nick Tosches http koti.mbnet.fi wdd harmonicafrank.htm Pete Hoppula s Harmonica Frank discography http www.mustrad.org.uk articles barrick.htm ... blues guitarists Category American blues singers Category American blues harmonica players Category ... from diabetes de Harmonica Frank ... more details
Infobox Musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians Name Harmonica Shah Img Img capt Img size ... Harmonica , Human voice vocals Voice type Genre Detroit blues , electric blues Occupation Harmonica Harmonicist , singer , songwriter Years active 1970s&ndash present Label Associated acts URL Notable instruments Harmonica Shah born Thaddeus Hall , March 31, 1946, Oakland, California Oakland , California is an United States American Detroit blues Detroit and electric blues harmonica harmonicist ..., Shah also spent time in Somerville, Texas , with his blues harmonica and guitar playing grandfather, Sam Dawson. ref name Island cite web url http www.islandartsfoundation.org harmonica shaw.aspx title Harmonica Shah author publisher Islandartsfoundation.org accessdate October 16, 2010 ref Dawson ... himself a cheap harmonica in 1976 and, while operating as a taxicab driver, Shah was introduced to local ... the drums. ref name Electro cite web url http www.electrofi.com listen good.htm title Harmonica Shah ... web url http www.bluessearchengine.com bluesartists s harmonicashah.html title Harmonica Shah author ... cite web url Allmusic class artist id harmonica shah p451820 discography pure url yes title Allmusic Harmonica Shah Allmusic ref Compilation albums Hastings Street Grease Vol. 1 1998 Blue Suit Records ... Wirz.de accessed October 2010 ref See also List of Detroit blues musicians List of harmonica blues ... image result group&ct title&resnum 7&ved 0CEIQsAQwBg Photographs of Harmonica Shah at Google.co.uk http www.nme.com artists harmonica shah Photographs and videos at NME.com Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Shah, Harmonica ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1946 PLACE OF BIRTH Oakland, California DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Shah, Harmonica Category 1946 births Category Living people Category American blues harmonica players Category American ... from California Category Harmonica blues musicians Category Electric blues musicians Category Musicians ... more details
Sections date April 2010 Image Suzuki Humming.png right thumb A tremolo harmonica. Tremolo harmonicas are a type of harmonica , distinct by having two reeds per note. In a tremolo harmonica the two reeds are tuned slightly off a reference pitch, one slightly sharp and the other slightly flat. This gives a unique wavering or warbling sound created by the two reeds being not exactly in tune with each other and difference in their subsequent waveforms acting against one another. The degree of beating can be varied depending on the desired effect. Instruments where the beating is faster due to the reeds being farther apart from the reference pitch are called wet , whereas those where the beating ... playing of a single note. The tremolo harmonica achieves the effect by employing the physical phenomenon ... similar to that used in the standard diatonic harmonica and also found in diatonic accordions and concertinas. This tuning has the major diatonic scale in the middle and top octaves of the harmonica ... or the fifth of the key of the harmonica. In Asia, the fourths and the sixths are added back in, in order ... called scale tuning. Here the notes of the major scale are found throughout the range of the harmonica ... in Asia of playing both a C and C harmonica stacked in order to achieve full chromaticity by having essentially the same notes available in each octave of the harmonica. This tuning is also applied .... Use Tremolo harmonicas are perhaps the most common form of harmonica in the world, being very popular in folk music as well as in much of East Asia . In the West, the tremolo harmonica is usually ... tremolo harmonica. This combines the slider design of the chromatic harmonica with the dual reed beating sound of the tremolo harmonica. Harmonica technician John Infande has been manufacturing ... while the Japan ese harmonica company Suzuki has recently released its design http www.suzuki music.co.jp ... DEFAULTSORT Tremolo Harmonica Category Harmonica de Tremoloharmonika ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 Alvin s Harmonica is a song from the fictional musical group, Alvin and the Chipmunks , which also features additional vocals by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. who plays David Seville in the song. The song was released as the second single from the group s debut album, Let s All Sing with the Chipmunks in 1959. Like Witch Doctor song Witch Doctor and The Chipmunk Song , it was adapted as one of the musical segments featured in The Alvin Show . Chart performance After the group s previous single, The Chipmunk Song , reached 1 on the charts, it was hoped that Alvin s Harmonica would do the same or at least reach the Top Ten. The single peaked at 3 on Billboard s Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart , becoming the group s second consecutive and final Top 10 single on the charts. Since the song was also credited to David Seville by Billboard magazine Billboard , the song became his third consecutive Top 10 single on the charts, although it was his first to not reach 1 on the charts. Alvin s Harmonica managed to re enter the chart in 1961 and 1962, peaking at 73 and 87, respectively. See also Alvin and the Chipmunks Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. Alvin and the Chipmunks Category 1959 songs Category Alvin and the Chipmunks songs ... more details
and higher notes smaller disks to the right. The glass harmonica , also known as the glass armonica ..., the glass harmonica is a crystallophone . The phenomenon of rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a wine ... glass.harmonica.in.rome.arp.jpg thumb right A glass harp or Seraphim , the ancestor of the Glass harmonica ... s fingers to create the notes. The word glass harmonica also Glassharmonica, Glass armonica , Harmonica de verre or Armonica de verre in French, Glasharmonika in German refers to any instrument ... harmony. ref The free reed wind instrument called the harmonica was not invented until 1821, sixty ... recorded, composed of Greek language Greek roots to mean something like harmonica to produce ... , and more than 100 composers composed works for the glass harmonica some pieces survived in the repertoire ... entirely a glass harmonica. format Ogg European monarchs indulged in it, and even Marie Antoinette ... of fear from playing the glass harmonica was noted by a German musicologist Friedrich Rochlitz in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung blockquote The harmonica excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges ... silica glass. ref http www.finkenbeiner.com GLASSHARMONICA.htm Glass harmonica at Finkenbeiner ref ... ref Modern revival Deleted image removed Image Glass Harmonica.jpg thumb Finkenbeiner s glass harmonica Music for glass harmonica and glass harp was all but unknown from 1820 until the 1930s, when German ... harmonica in 1952, the crystal organ or Cristal baschet , which consists of 52 chromatically tuned glass rods that are rubbed with wet fingers. The glass harmonica differs mainly in that the rods, set ... http video.google.com videoplay?docid 5727134986959986187&q glass harmonica William Zeitler playing Adagio in C on the Armonica http video.google.com videoplay?docid 6668277826108045373&q glass harmonica ... October 2009 Pink Floyd s 1975 track, Shine On You Crazy Diamond , opens using a glass harmonica. David Gilmour s 2006 album, On An Island , features a glass harmonica on several tracks. The subsequent ... more details
Image Chromonica.jpg thumb 270px Hohner Super Chromatic harmonica, a typical 12 hole chromatic. Refimprove date May 2009 The chromatic harmonica is a type of harmonica that uses a button activated sliding ... used in harmonica orchestras. When the button is not pressed, an altered diatonic major scale of the key of the harmonica is available, while depressing the button accesses the same scale a semi ... scale. Famously accomplished chromatic harmonica players include the classical player Larry ... f a d Pros and Cons Because it is a fully chromatic scale chromatic instrument, the chromatic harmonica ... bend notes on both blow and draw notes, giving additional tonality if needed. In traditional harmonica bands, the chromatic harmonica plays the lead part. However, while the chromatic harmonica is capable ... on a Richter tuned device. Thus, while a chromatic harmonica is well suited for playing lead or melody ... harmonica is designed to play melodies in any key, many 16 hole and special version chromatic ... of the chromatic harmonica the first approach, encouraged mainly by classical music players such as Franz Chmel , is that a good harmonica player should try his or her best to use the chromatic in the key ... more expensive than their diatonic counterparts, with a typical chromatic harmonica ... harmonica. Slider design Chromatic harmonicas are often described as either straight tuned or cross ... movement than in straight tuned sliders. The simple way of doing this is to construct the harmonica ... harmonica , as well as Tombo s S 50, Tombo s Chromatic Violin Range, and others. Tombo ... scale tuning system but with only one reed in essence it is a C music sharp tremolo harmonica sitting on top of a C tremolo harmonica, with blow and draw reeds each sitting in a single cell. The player switches between a top row tuned to C music sharp and a bottom tuned to C by changing the angle of the harmonica ... are very beneficial for classical music playing. References Reflist Category Harmonica nl Chromatische ... more details
notability date December 2007 The Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica SPAH is an organization dedicated to players of the harmonica . It was founded in October 1962 and officially incorporated on October 23, 1963. It is based in Troy, Michigan Troy , Michigan , United States , and has members in the United States and around the world. The society sponsors harmonica conventions. ref http www.spah.org mc page.do?sitePageId 8598&orgId spa ref Objectives The objectives of the organization are to cultivate, develop, improve, foster, promote, preserve and advance the harmonica and harmonica playing. SPAH also tries to lobby for the instrument s acceptance as a bonafide musical instrument. The organization encourages members to form harmonica clubs and hold annual gatherings. SPAH sponsors an annual convention for the entire membership, which draws attendees from many countries. While many SPAH members do, or have played harmonica at an advanced level, playing skill on the instrument is not required. Activities The organization sponsors an annual five day International Harmonica Convention and publishes a quarterly magazine, Harmonica Happenings . As well, to promote harmonica pedagogy, it distributes information on teaching harmonica, and responds to questions about harmonica playing or teaching. The organization also recognizes and honors people either players, historians, or writers who preserve and advance the harmonica. SPAH s website also contains information on harmonicas and harmonica playing. External links http www.spah.org The Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica official site References reflist DEFAULTSORT Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica, The Category Harmonica organizations Category Organizations established in 1962 music org stub ... more details
The National Harmonica League is an organization for harmonica players and enthusiasts, based in Great Britain but with members world wide. The President of the organization is Paul Jones singer Paul Jones . It publishes a magazine, Harmonica World which is sent to members six times a year. It organises events and tuition meetings. The main festival is currently held in October, in The Bristol Folk House. It includes workshops, concerts and a harmonica contest which has been won by many players who went on to play professionally, including Philip Achille . ref cite news title FOLK MUSIC NATIONAL HARMONICA LEAGUE FESTIVAL Folk House Bristol url http www.highbeam.com doc 1G1 110495076.html work The Independent date 2003 11 25 accessdate 2008 04 07 ref ref cite news title We Ll Hit Longer Note Next Festival url http www.accessmylibrary.com coms2 summary 0286 26451964 ITM work Bristol Evening Post date 2002 10 23 accessdate 2008 04 07 ref External links http www.harmonica.co.uk www.harmonica.co.uk National Harmonica League web site http www.harmonica.co.uk magazine.htm www.harmonica.co.uk magazine.htm Harmonica World Magazine web site References reflist Category Arts organisations based in the United Kingdom Category Harmonica music org stub ... more details
The Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra , Opus 46, is a concerto featuring a harmonica soloist, composed by the English musician Malcolm Arnold . The piece was composed in 1954 for the American harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler , and was premiered on August 14, 1954 at the Royal Albert Hall , with accompaniment by the BBC Symphony Orchestra . The concerto has a duration of nine minutes and was one of the first of a number of serious pieces composed for the harmonica after the Second World War in addition to works by Darius Milhaud , Ralph Vaughan Williams , and Heitor Villa Lobos . Sources The World Guide to Musical Instruments, Max Wade Matthews, Anness Publishing Ltd., 2001 http www.malcolmarnold.co.uk Official Malcolm Arnold Website Category Compositions by Malcolm Arnold Category 1954 compositions Category Concertos Harmonica concerto stub ... more details
Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival APHF, Chinese language Chinese , Japanese language Japanese is one of the world s largest harmonica events. It is held every two years. The first APHF was held in Taipei in 1996. Deleted image removed Image aphflogo.jpg thumb 200px APHF Logo List of APHF border 0 cellpadding 3px style border 1px solid 999 background color ffffff align center style background color cccccc Year Host City Country Organizer 1996 Taipei Taiwan http www.hapa.org.tw Taiwan Harmonica Art Promotion Association 1998 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia http myharmonicaworld.com Harmonica World SDN BHD 2000 Seoul South Korea http www.harmonicabank.com Korea Harmonica Association 2002 Atsugi Japan http ajhf0.at.infoseek.co.jp All Japan Harmonica Federation 2004 Hong Kong China http www.hkharmonica.org Hong Kong Harmonica Association http khq.hk King s Harmonica Quintet 2006 Taipei Taiwan http www.hapa.org.tw Taiwan Harmonica Art Promotion Association 2008 Hangzhou China 2010 Singapore Singapore http www.harmonica.org.sg Singapore Harmonica Aficionados Society 2012 Malaysia External links http ajhf0.at.infoseek.co.jp eatsugi2002.htm 4th APHF 2002 Official Homepage http www.hkharmonica.org modules event aphf2004 5th APHF 2004 Official Homepage http www.2006aphf.org.tw 6th APHF 2006 Official Homepage http www.hangzhou2008.net 7th APHF 2008 Official Homepage http www.aphf2010.org 8th APHF 2010 Official Homepage Category harmonica A zh ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date October 2008 King s College Harmonica Band KCHB by a King s College Alumni King s College Harmonica Band KCHB , founded in 1951, is one of the oldest harmonica Musical ensemble ensembles in Hong Kong . At first, it consisted of only a few members. In the 60 s, under the baton of Mr. Fung On , the band began to expand in scale and won an enviable reputation for performances in Hong Kong . At that time, KCHB comprised over 30 members and through their efforts, numerous prizes in the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival were won, which are unnumbered. Towards the 1960s, because of Mr. Fung s leaving, the success and enthusiasm of the band waned until Mr. Hui Yau Fong took the Baton conducting baton a few years later. Mr. Hui reorganized KCHB, enthusiastically nurtured the new generation, and prepared for future development. Between 1981 and 1985, KCHB ... the stage and the baton went to Mr. Johnny KUAN , another old boy and harmonica enthusiast. Under ... from 1989 to 1993 in the Concert Work of Harmonica Solo of the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival . In 1991 ... harmonica kick among professionals and amateurs alike. Shortly after that, the ongoing development ... concert at Drama Theatre, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts so as to promote harmonica music ... Anniversary of our alma mater and the Golden Anniversary of the Harmonica Band. In the concert ... of Mr. Kuan. In 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004, KCHB members participated in the Asia Pacific Harmonica ..., made their European d but by entering the World Harmonica Festival held in the Town of Harmonica &ndash Trossingen , Germany . Nowadays, KCHB is a harmonica orchestra consisting of more than 40 members, many of them being experienced and prospective harmonica players. KCHB will continue its tradition of nurturing the new generation of harmonica players, while encouraging more students to get in touch with and appreciate classical music. Category Hong Kong musical groups Category Harmonica ... more details
Other persons George Smith Deleted image removed Image Georgehsmith.jpg right thumb George harmonica Smith George Harmonica Smith April 22, 1924 &ndash October 2, 1983 ref name AMG Allmusic class artist id p126309 biography pure url yes Allmusic.com accessed May 2009 ref born Allen George Smith was an United States American blues harmonica player. He was also known as the master of the chromatic blues harmonica . Life and career Born in West Helena, Arkansas West Helena , Arkansas , but brought up in Cairo, Illinois Cairo , Illinois , he began playing professionally in 1951. ref name russell cite book first Tony last Russell year 1997 title The Blues From Robert Johnson musician Robert Johnson to Robert Cray edition publisher Carlton Books Limited location Dubai pages 167 isbn 1 85868 255 X ref He was recruited to join Muddy Waters band in 1954, making his presence between the short lived Henry Strong , and James Cotton . ref name russell He would rejoin Waters in 1966. ref name russell He eventually made the decision to leave Chicago, and spent much of his adult life on the West Coast of the United States West Coast of United States America . ref name russell Smith played with the blues combo, Bacon Fat, and tutored its harmonica player Rod Piazza , and mentored guitarist Blues Musician ... on her album Jail 1975 , and with another harmonica student William Clarke musician William ... Harmonica Smith died in 1983, in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles , California at the age of 59. ref name AMG Selected Discography Harmonica Ace Ace Records ref name russell Harmonica Blues King ... Masters of Blues Harp http www.wirz.de music smithgeo.htm Illustrated George Harmonica Smith discography Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Smith, George Harmonica ALTERNATIVE NAMES ... DEFAULTSORT Smith, George Harmonica Category 1924 births Category 1983 deaths Category American blues musicians Category American blues harmonica players Category Harmonica blues musicians Category ... more details
Multiple issues orphan December 2008 unreferenced December 2008 notability December 2008 Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Tunes for a Small Harmonica title orig translator image author Barbera Wersba cover artist country United States language English language English series genre novel publisher Harper and Row release date October 1977 media type Print Hardback pages 173 isbn 0060263733 congress PZ7.W473 Tu oclc 2224740 preceded by followed by Tunes for a Small Harmonica is a novel by Barbera Wersba about an adolescent tomboy named J.F. McAllister. It was originally published by Dell Publishing but was then reprinted by Harper and Row publishing. Plot J.F. receives a harmonica from friend for her birthday and ends up learning to play it. She becomes quite good and this skill becomes useful after she ends up falling in love with her poetry teacher and then decides to try to raise 1000 to help her teacher to be able to return to England to finish his Master s thesis. DEFAULTSORT Tunes For A Small Harmonica Category American novels ... more details
The following is a list of harmonica blues musicians . compactTOC2 A Billy Boy Arnold B Deford Bailey ..., Carey is an acoustic and electric harmonica blues and Chicago blues multi instrumentalist, performing on bass guitar , guitar , Drum kit drums and harmonica and vocals. He has released several ... was an amplified harmonica blues blues harp player, guitarist , vocalist and flutist who performed ... guitarist who performed blues rock , harmonica blues and electric Chicago blues . His first ... 2, 1996 Born in Inglewood, California , harmonica blues player and singer William Clarke was an electric ..., Alabama , Coleman was a country blues harmonica player, guitarist and singer who performed early harmonica blues active most in the 1930s. His career fizzled out and he was left to perform ... Cotton Born July 1, 1935 in Tunica, Mississippi , James Cotton is a harmonica blues player and singer ... Alan Glen Adam Gussow is an American harmonica player and a member of the blues duo Satan and Adam ... of the best known blues neck rack harmonica players from his era despite having begun his career as a guitarist. He played everything from Louisiana blues , swamp blues , electric blues and harmonica ... known harmonica players of his day. He played the gambit, including Memphis blues , Chicago blues , juke joint blues and harmonica blues . He performed both acoustic as well as amplified harmonica, and was also a singer . Sideman with many of the leading bluesmen of the day, still an influence ... Little Walter John Long musician Louisiana Red M Eddie Mapp Steve Marriner 2009 Harmonica Player of the Year ... Mike Moothart Mike Morgan blues musician Mike Morgan Born November 30, 1959, Morgan is the harmonica ... Mikael Santana Satan and Adam Harmonica Shah Mark Corky Seigel Hank Shreve Little Mack Simmons George Harmonica Smith April 22, 1924 &ndash October 2, 1983 Born in Helena, Arkansas , Smith was a Harmonica ... in Los Angeles, California . Playing harmonica on an amplified microphone as well as in acoustic ... more details
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