Oct. 2024 Mile High Harmonica Newsletter
We have a seasonal theme (or challenge) for open mic this month. See if you can find a song about autumn …
Sept. 2024 Mile High Harmonica Newsletter
The News FROM SCOTT I don’t mean to be bragging that I got to go to the SPAH convention (Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica) this past month in Tulsa, but I do feel fortunate that I was able to go.
Toots Thielemans
Jean-Baptiste “Toots” Thielemans Solo Instrumentalist (Harmonica and Guitar) 2009 NEA Jazz Master, Brussels, Belgium Date of birth: Apr 29, 1922 | Date of death: Aug 22, 2016
Farewell to Stan Harper
Another one of the stars from the “golden age” of the harmonica has left us.
Thousands of fans gather at five-day Harmonica Convention
AUGUST 12, 2015, BY DAN DARU DENVER — The sound is unmistakable and instantly recognizable. The harmonica. Invented in Germany but is now a part of the American fabric.
5,700 Harmonicas
When Harland Crain tires of playing one of his harmonicas, he selects another from his breathtaking array – believed to be the world’s largest private collection. During the last 20 years, Crain has amassed more than 5,700 of the pocket size musical instruments, from rare 19th-century German made “mundharmonikas” to gold-plated harps made for the…
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