Had a nightmare about harmonica...

[Azalin]

Well, I'm still waiting for my first harmonica ever to arrive by mail. There's one night during the week, I strangely had a bunch of 'light' nightmares, I guess I must have been anxious that day. One of the nightmares had to do with me trying out my future harmonica. Well, I was trying to play a single note, but because I could not manage to focus my air stream, I was hitting two notes at the same time, all the time I hope in real life I won't have such a hard time!

[Whistling Archer]

when you get it, try tongue blocking & puckering. I tb, but puckering works better for some.
To me it is easier to get a single note TBing. you willjust kinda be playing out of the right side , using tongue at left to close holes. When I tried puckering my mouth got tired of clenching it. Granted I may have been over doing it.

there is NO way that you will not learn . Your even dreaming about it. You will be da man!!

[mutepointe]

What kind of harmonica are you getting by mail? Don't you have any local music stores? Even Wal-Mart sell them in the Toy section and Cracker Barrell restaurants sell them for $5 near the cash register.

Sometimes you want to play two notes at once. What made you decide to play the harmonica? Do you play other instruments?

[Azalin]

Wow Mute, so many questions, so little time in this lifespan.

First of all, I am getting a "Paddy Richter" tuned harmonica, which has a replaced note that makes playing irish tunes easier. I already play whistle and concertina, and focusing hard on concertina, but I will be travelling to Vietnam for a few weeks in december so I wanted something that was 'similar' to the concertina I could bring. The harmonica is the next best thing, it's push/pull like an anglo concertina and has reeds!!

Irish music being about the melody, my main concern is to play single notes, the melody. Maybe when I'm 96 and a hotshot harmonica player I'll give multiple notes a try

[mutepointe]

I just have plain old diatonic harmonicas. If I ever get to replace them, you had better believe that I'm getting Paddy Richter tuned harmonicas too. That explains why you're not getting the Cracker Barrell harmonica.

I had thought you might have lived so far away from civilization that receiving a harmonica by mail was your only option or that you didn't know that there were local harmonica outlets in your town.

[Azalin]

Haha, well, it could have been possible yeah. The problem is, I know so much nothing about harmonicas that I went with what Steve Shaw recommended. I'm getting a Seydel G Paddy Richter from David Payne in the US. I could have possibly bought one from some shop in Canada, but David is a harmonica expert and will not send me crap, so it's worth the extra wait.

[Julia Delaney]

Have you seen the horror film, "The Harmonica That Ate Montreal?" It's a gem.
Harmonica Dreams. Great book too.

[mutepointe]

Diatonicbolical?

[scheky]

I like the Seydel Paddy G. The case is nice and tight, thus not tearing out any of my facial hairs. I like the Lee Oskar that I use also, but the Seydel is easier on my face.

I do agree with Steve that they are a little expensive, given that they cost about 1/2 again as much as a Lee Oskar and last about 1/2 as long before blowing a reed.

[mutepointe]

Is there another instrument that will catch a mustache hair as painfully as some harmonicas?

My Hohner Golden Melody is the worst at that.