Harmony!
A friend bought me a harmonica as a birthday gift yesterday. It’s a simple device with ten holes, breathing in or out on which will produce different sounds. So you’ve effectively got 20 notes to play with. Producing chords is quite easy, just play through multiple holes at once.
The brand is German, after speaking with a German fellow tonight I discovered the instrument is quite popular over there. Go figure!
So far I’ve been reading tutorials on how to hold the instrument and the skills one should build. Via personal experimentation though I’ve discovered the most critical requirement to learning the harmonica:
- Put a Bob Dylan album on before you start.
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I never quite managed to work out how you played the harmonica. I always ended up playing all the notes at the same time and ended up sounding like that kid in ‘Free Willy’.
Anyway, Happy Birthday mate. (3 days late now but I haven’t seen you around University to wish you such in person!) Catch up with you later this weekend.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:05 am
Black to match his iPhone