• There are numerous techniques available for playing the harmonica, including bending, overbending, and tongue blocking. In addition to the 19 (draw 2 and...
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    The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American...
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    The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica is a type...
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  • Pacific Harmonica Festival, held bi-annually since 1996 Harmonica concerto, a list of such compositions Harmonica techniques, a list of such techniques Magnus...
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    harmonica, 10-hole harmonica (in Asia) or blues harp (in America), is the most widely known type of harmonica. It is a variety of diatonic harmonica,...
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    Don Baker (musician) (category Blues harmonica players)
    Rob Strong (2018) The Blues Man - 2 CDs (2019) The Harmonica (1987) Complete Harmonica Techniques (1993) Beginning Blues Harp (1995) Beginning Rock Harp...
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  • Little Walter (category American blues harmonica players)
    musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica had a strong impact on succeeding generations, earning him comparisons...
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  • 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...
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    Harry Pitch (category Jazz harmonica players)
    an English harmonica player who featured on many recordings and soundtracks between the 1950s and 2000s. According to the National Harmonica League, he...
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    Peter "Madcat" Ruth (category American blues harmonica players)
    2005, Homespun Tapes released two DVDs of harmonica techniques taught by Madcat, "Anyone Can Play Harmonica – An Easy Guide to Getting Started", and "The...
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    melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through...
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    Big Walter Horton (category American blues harmonica players)
    whilst playing the harmonica, along with his suffering from nystagmus). Horton was known for his unique tongue-blocking techniques and tone. Horton was...
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    harmonica. He was the first harmonicist to adopt an all-classical repertoire and, along with Larry Adler and Tommy Reilly, established the harmonica as...
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    Paul Butterfield (category Harmonica blues musicians)
    American blues harmonica player, singer, and bandleader. After early training as a classical flautist, he developed an interest in blues harmonica. He explored...
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  • Overblowing (category Musical techniques)
    Overblowing is an important modern technique among players of some harmonica types, notably the standard Richter-tuned harmonica or blues harp. Combined with...
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  • Chris Michalek (category American harmonica players)
    Global Harmonica Summit in 2000. Michalek was known for using the overblow technique, which is used to play chromatically on the diatonic harmonica. When...
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    Toots Thielemans (category Bebop harmonica players)
    Belgian jazz musician. He was mostly known for playing the chromatic harmonica, as well as his guitar and whistling skills, and composing. According...
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    Cash's concerts, with Cash performing both harmonica parts himself, usually with a dual-harmonica technique. During a performance included on his At Folsom...
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    Jerry Murad's Harmonicats (category Harmonica organizations)
    Harmonicats were an American harmonica-based group. The earliest iteration of The Harmonicats was known as the Harmonica Madcaps, later renamed The Quintones...
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  • and songwriter. He was known as a virtuoso who used unorthodox playing techniques, and much of his output was classified as new age music. Hedges died in...
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    clubs as early as the late 1950s – by the early 1960s Muddy Waters and harmonica virtuoso Little Walter encouraged him and occasionally allowed him to...
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    guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica, or both. The guitarist may employ any of several methods for sounding...
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  • percussive techniques, such as striking the glass to produce a sound, or by utilizing friction to generate a resonant sound (a playing technique used for...
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  • Lonnie Glosson (category American harmonica players)
    musician Wayne Raney, fueled by Raney's admiration for Glosson's harmonica techniques, and establishing the team on a radio station in Little Rock. In...
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    Howard Levy (category American harmonica players)
    regular diatonic harmonica. He discovered the overblow and overdraw techniques for chromatic playing in 1970. These allow a harmonica player to obtain...
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    British rock band Jethro Tull. He is a multi-instrumentalist who also plays harmonica, keyboard, bass guitar, bouzouki, balalaika, saxophone and a variety of...
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    wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Celesta Crystallophone Glass Harmonica Glass harp Glasschord Hydraulophone Plasmaphone Pyrophone Quintephone...
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    Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, copying local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. In 1941, Alan...
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    John Mayall (category Harmonica blues musicians)
    famous blues and blues rock musicians of all-time. A singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and keyboardist, he had a career that spanned nearly seven decades...
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  • jazz music (see glissando) A harmonica technique used to change the pitch of a note. String bending, a guitar technique All pages with titles beginning...
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