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30-NOV-2006 David Mingay

Nov 30: Small

Linda posted a music-hero picture yesterday, which got me on to this shot. There I was walking around the house playing annoyingly bad renditions of Red River Rock / Wooden Heart on the harmonica, when I thought I should do a pic of my Paul Jones ‘signature’ mini harmonica that Linda had secretly bought for me when we went to see him play. For the uninitiated, Jones is a fabulous blues harmonica player. Ex Manfred Mann, as well as various other bands, and current Radio 2 presenter. (In fact, I’m listening to his show as I type). But how to show how small this diminutive instrument is... how about I place it alongside my Hohner ‘Big River Harp’, a regular sized harmonica, itself only 4 inches long. The little one is less than an inch and a half long, yet perfectly playable. As long as you only need 8 notes...

Another harp pic here

Canon EOS 20D
1/125s f/16.0 at 100.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Dan Chusid06-Dec-2006 22:24
Now why haven't I posted a picture of my blues harps?
Nice one David!
Jim Ross30-Nov-2006 22:32
Hehe..Its funny how it always sounds good to the person
playing it... :-)
Guest 30-Nov-2006 21:23
I've been wanting one of those to do a photo illustration of the Janis song Me and Bobby Mcgee...I need a harmonica so I can photograph the part where she says, "I pull my harpoon outa my dirty red bandana, was playing soft while Bbby sang the blues...."

I got the dirty red bandana.

Hey, it's nice to see some pics from you dude.