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James Kelly - Perfect

'Perfect'. Recorded on 6th June 2011...

::Lyrics::

everybody's hurting

everyone my friend

everybody's doubtful

they'll see it to the end

eve...

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I'd Rather Go Blind | Playing For Change

This version of the Etta James' original was recorded at the PFC Band's last rehearsal before heading out on the road for their spring 2012 "Back T...

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harmonica train solo with christiaan

harmonica train solo by christiaan van der nagel

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christiaan van der nagel Take me somewhere

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Nino Strano (AN) trombato ma candidato alle Europee

Vi ricordate di Nino Strano, quel figuro squisitissimo della comitiva di Gasparri, nonchè gran depositario di bon ton parlamentare che, in passato,...

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Angelina - Tommy Emmanuel

Here is a video of Angelina by Tommy Emmanuel. Its the first song i have learned that is hybrid picking

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Electric Blues Guitar Improvisation

Improvising some electric blues to a "Thrill is Gone" type of background. Broke a string partway through!

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Black Magic Harmonica

Brendan Power & R. Sleigh @ SPAH

"Funky Blues" - Paul Lassey - Harmonica C / Do
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Brendan Power (Harmonica) - Jools Holland Show with Tim Edey & Lucy Randall

The amazing Brendan Power playing live with Tim Edey and Lucy Randall, on Later with Jools Holland . First aired 29 October 2004

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lonesome train on the harmonica by Uncle Ptack himself

THis is a tune I did in the Proxima Club in Warwaw on the 1'st of Dec '08. I hope you like it, in the near future I plan to publish a lot of my mus...

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The history of the harmonica, as we know it today, is an amazing tale which begins in the year 1821. It was then that sixteen-year-old Christian Friedrich Buschmann registered the first European patents for his new musical invention. His so called "aura" was a free-reed instrument consisting of a series of steel reeds arranged together horizontally in small channels. An awkward design, it offered only blow notes arranged chromatically.

Buschmann described his new instrument to his brother as "a new instrument that is truly remarkable. In its entirety it measures but four inches in diameter...but gives me twenty-one notes, and all the pianissimos and crescendos one could want without a keyboard, harmonies of six tones, and the ability to hold a note as long as one would wish to."

Initial designs by Buschmann were widely imitated, leading to many modifications and advancements. A Bohemian instrument maker named Richter may have made the most important advancements in early harmonica design. Around 1826, he developed a variation that consisted of ten holes and twenty reeds, with separate blow and draw reed plates mounted on either side of a cedar comb. Richter's tuning, utilizing a diatonic scale, became the standard configuration of what Europeans referred to as the Mundharmonika or mouth organ

In 1857, the history of the harmonica changed dramatically as German clock maker Matthias Hohner turned to manufacturing harmonicas full-time. With the help of his family and a hired workman, he was able to produce 650 instruments that year. Soon after, he added local workers and developed mass production techniques.

Young Hohner was an outstanding businessman and showed his marketing savvy by developing the charactoristic ornate cover plates bearing the producer's name.

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He introduced the harmonica to North America in 1862, a move which would propel the Hohner company to its status as world leader in harmonicas. By 1887, Hohner was producing more than one million harmonicas annually. Today, Hohner produces over 90 different models of harmonica, with a variety of styles and tunings which allows the player freedom of expression in all forms of music, from Classical and Jazz to Blues, Country and Rock, to music of the people worldwide.

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