Player’s Resources
Annie Raines’s Favorite (Harmonica) Things
Annie Raines is a young blues harmonica player whose initial training was with Jerry Portnoy (of Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton’s bands). Annie’s consistently excellent, deep, traditionally blue harp work has earned her a steadily growing following for the last several years. Her recent performances…
Filisko on Levy
The essay below was published by Joe Filisko, undoubtedly the greatest diatonic harmonica maker in the world as of late 1999, on the Harp-L internet mailing list in May 1999. Written in response (in part) to my comments on the 1999 Buckeye Harmonica Festival, the…
Here’s How to Get a Chicago-Style Sound Through a PA
Members of the Harp-L List regularly ask how they can achieve a “Chicago” style sound when using the PA system as the main amplifier for harmonica. This page, with help from guest writer Dom DeStefano, offers a few solutions that have been tested and proved…
Have you played a Country-Tuned Harmonica? Why not?
NOTE: This discussion originally appeared in a slightly different form in a message posted to the Harp-L List on December 2, 1998. There’s been some recent discussion on Harp-L of the uses for the Huang Jazz Harp (which is in what Hohner calls Country Tuning,…
