About 500 harmonica players have descended onto the San Antonio River Walk for a convention with a single purpose: preserve and promote the fading use of harmonica in popular music. Harmonica ...

Most nights, you can walk into a blues club and find a harmonica player blowing their heart out onstage. The wailing, honking sound associated with Western movies and juke joints is what many harp ...

Trying too hard while playing an instrument can sometimes spoil the music, and harmonica performances work in the same way, according to acclaimed harmonicist Park Jong-seong. "Blowing on a harmonica ...

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Learning any instrument for the first time is going to take time and dedication. There are so many benefits to learning an instrument. Once you get the hang of it, playing music can help relieve ...

Lynn Massa may forget a lot of things, but he never forgets how to play the harmonica. “I have to check to make sure my head’s still screwed on sometimes,” he joked, “but I can always play a tune.” ...

The harmonica always has been an instrument of choice for blues musicians because it’s affordable and easy to carry. Mark Hummel, who considers himself a musicologist, is better-known as a bandleader ...

SOLVING a crossword puzzle one day some 30 years ago, a young Austrian violinist couple named Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger came across a reference to an instrument they had never heard of, ...

Planning to start the basic lessons of harmonica or a mouth organ? Or you know how to play it and are looking for a new one, it is advisable to go for a trusted and popular option. This is a wind ...

Peace still enjoys playing the instrument whenever he can. He regularly attends the Route 66 Harmonica Club meetings in Tulsa, which includes a monthly jam session with several area harmonica players.