Rubes
10 posts
May 10, 2010
5:57 AM
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Onya Nasty! Have to catch up for a few Schooners and blues sometime!
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JDH
30 posts
May 10, 2010
6:49 AM
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born Jefferson Iowa 1951
started on trumpet in 1962
began singing in baptist church choir in 1963
started trying to play guitar in 1964
Moved to Seattle area 1966
Began trying to play harp after seeing Butterfield in 1967
Bass 1980
Hammond B3 1987
Up and down the west coast a lot in the 70's, lived in San Deigo, extended visits all along the coast, lived in the mountains 60 miles NE of Seattle for 7 years, been back in the suburbs and working downtown for 22 years, as cities go, Seattle is a wonderful city.
Last Edited by on May 11, 2010 6:16 PM
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5F6H
119 posts
May 10, 2010
8:05 AM
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Born in Middlesex UK, over the last 42yrs have managed to wander far & wide...down the road a bit, over the bridge accross the Thames, down the road a bit more & settled in Addlestone, Surrey.
Based on current statistics, if I live to 300 I might make France? :-)
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nacoran
1840 posts
May 10, 2010
1:16 PM
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Welcome aboard everyone!
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Nate
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DeakHarp
22 posts
May 10, 2010
8:40 PM
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Born in Jersey City .. Raised in Woodbridge NJ .. moved to the mid west in 2000 ... Curently living in the middle of the corn ... On 10 Acers in a Trailor ... in Oakland IL .Ask Adam He was there .. while we had tornado warnings .. Thinking on sellig this land and take the RV to wherever ... Make a New CD and mabey move to MS Clarksdale that is ...... i have lots of friends there ... Watermellon Slim for one ... Big Jack Johnson .. Adam Gussow aint too far away either ...
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MP
246 posts
May 10, 2010
8:50 PM
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BORN AND RAISED IN HONOLULU, HAWAII.
LIVED IN LANCASTER,PA FROM MARCH 1998-AUGUST 2005. BACK IN HONOLULU, the coolest surfing,best climate town i know.
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CaptJonHawaii
7 posts
May 10, 2010
9:33 PM
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Nice idea for a forum topic! It's great that this forum can bring together
players from all over the world.
I was born in Seattle and have lived and worked on the ocean here in
Honolulu Hawaii since 1987. Have also lived in Japan, Australia, and Caribbean racing and building sailboats.
MP....Where do you play? Give me a call 721.9166
Aloha!
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groyster1
54 posts
May 11, 2010
6:07 AM
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born and raised in oak ridge,tenn lived in nashville,tn for 24 years moved to cosby for 6 years back to hometown 3 years ago love for blues came from john r on wlac late night blues radio how many of you heard say this is john r way down in dixie?
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MP
247 posts
May 11, 2010
5:55 PM
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hey jon,
you saw me at ANNAs and you have a MANJI and a FIREBREATH and you know scott.
i still have your card. i'll give you a call.
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MP
248 posts
May 11, 2010
6:15 PM
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Capt.Jon,
che pasta spring blues fest this sat. (the 15th) 5pm -11pm.
kevin coleman kicks it off,
me and chris vandercook 2nd,
r. smith and l. spaulding 3rd,
and the dynamic shuffle kings last.
tons of harp in every act.
they'll have cajun food too.
1001 bishop st. parking in bishop square bldg. $4 validated
Last Edited by on May 11, 2010 6:20 PM
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CaptJonHawaii
8 posts
May 13, 2010
12:50 AM
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MP
Mark, yes I did meet you and have put the initials to the name. Thanks!
Spaulding played a 2hr set on our sunset sail two weeks ago just him and his uke and harps. Tourists were very surprised and delighted!
Going to work with Kevin to build a bullet mic.
Need to get with you to do some tuning. Hands down your rep here is da best!
See/hear you Sat.
Aloha!
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Nastyolddog
701 posts
May 13, 2010
1:01 AM
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I come from a land down under. Where women glow and men chunder,
get it right Bro's
I come from a land down under. Where women BLOW and men THUNDER,
simply put women do girl Farts Psssssssssssst:)
Men do gut wrenching knock down the wall Farts
Ka Boom Ka Boom!!!!:)
and it's not a good Fart if you don't strike mud:)
Last Edited by on May 13, 2010 2:42 AM
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jim
9 posts
May 13, 2010
2:37 AM
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Russian,
Living in Bulgaria at the moment.
Doing harp repair and customizing.
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MP
263 posts
May 13, 2010
2:13 PM
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Capt.Jon,
i have three kevin mics.
all ASTATICS with CRs. all killer with great,durable,glossy,paint jobs.
going to borrow a hot crystal biscuit from kevin to play through larrys tweed fender deluxe.
crystals just sound better through that amp.
and sure, i'll tweak your harps.
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Mojokane
16 posts
May 30, 2010
2:46 PM
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Born in New Haven, Conn. Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. ;-)
now what?
Last Edited by on May 31, 2010 2:04 AM
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Mo_Joe
1 post
May 31, 2010
5:42 AM
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Little ass working class town called Bor, Serbia
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EddieT
12 posts
May 31, 2010
8:29 AM
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Hello,
I was born and raised in Carbondale Pennsylvania. Lived in New Jersey then D.C. for 4 years each and currently living in Mackenbach Germany...and trying to learn harmonica for 3 months now.
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-Edward Tomaine
http://www.youtube.com/user/HungTaoChoyMei
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harmonicajoe
6 posts
May 31, 2010
9:03 AM
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Hey I was Born in Pasadena and raised in San Francisco, but hey I've lived in the Boston area for about 25 years.What are you gonna do?
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MP
362 posts
May 31, 2010
11:54 AM
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MOJOKANE. you were born in CONN?! i thought you were born on the same normal pacific island as me.
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beltone
10 posts
May 31, 2010
12:37 PM
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Dayton OH and now (25 years later) Bush, Louisiana.
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-- BTMF --
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KevinS
1 post
Jun 02, 2010
12:02 PM
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Born in Charleston WV. When I was in the fourth or fifth grade, I was given a harp and taught to play "Just a Rose Will Do" and some other hymns by an old Hungarian man next door. Fast forward more than a few years (now age 55), living in Roanoke Va., picked up a harp again to pass the time while driving. One night a couple of years ago, a friend caught me (hiding) jamming to Steve and Steve Blues Band at Tomahawks in Charleston WV. I was forced on to stage at gun point, knees knocking, I chain sawed my way through a few riffs with minimal embarrassment. I later stumbled across Adam on U Tube, downloaded some lessons.... now I'm hooked.
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vonpowell
10 posts
Jun 02, 2010
12:18 PM
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Born and raised as a farm boy in extreme Western Kentucky. Resident of Huntsville, Alabama for 26 years.
Only been playing for around 6-8 months. Found a harmonica in my desk (Hohner Big River) that was given to me by my kids over 20 years ago and got the itch to try to learn the thing again. Started scratching and the itch got worse, so now I'm hooked.
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nacoran
1979 posts
Jun 02, 2010
12:38 PM
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Welcome aboard everyone. Check out the how to thread on the forum home page, right under the creed. It has great tips for posting photos, links, and videos and a link to a Google Map of where different forum members are from. Feel free to drop a pin in for yourself (you need a Google account). If you need anything, just ask. There are no stupid questions, only tongue blockers. :) (Just kidding.)
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Nate
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badman
2 posts
Jun 02, 2010
9:26 PM
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Born in Rhode Island, raised in Long Island, (Seaford) ended up in the south where I make my home in Cartersville, GA (about 45 miles north of Atlanta)
Started playing Harmonica as a teenager, after hearing Jimmy Rogers "Walkin' by Myself" dropped it for basically 25 years, recently started again.
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ridge
1 post
Jun 03, 2010
1:41 PM
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Born and raised in Burlington, CT. I now live in Somerville, MA just outside of Boston. I'm a long time MBH reader, first time contributor.
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mlefree
1 post
Jul 10, 2010
12:07 PM
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Michelle LeFree plays harp in Montrose, Colorado.
Originally from Denver, lived in Ann Arbor for 20 years before moving back to the mountains. Always a blues nut, only started harp 6-7 years ago (~after~ I moved away from Madcat's hometown -- stupid me!).
Love blues, roots, old-timey music. Play diatonics, rhythm bones & jawharps.
(my first post :^)
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wolfkristiansen
17 posts
Jul 10, 2010
3:19 PM
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Born in the same city as Lee Oskar, København, two months before him. Moved to Canada when I was two, brought my parents with me. My route after that-- Grande Prairie, Edmonton, Nanaimo, Vancouver, Prince Rupert. The last three are in British Columbia. Longest stay in any city was Vancouver, 23 years. I'm old, just like Lee Oskar.
Probably the wrong thread for this, but one of my musical highlights was playing for 14,000 people at a rock festival, a one hour set on stage with Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker. I did not pretend I could fill Al Wilson's shoes, but got right into John Lee's endless boogie. It was a blast. I cherish the memory.
The little fishing town I now live in has one, maybe two real blues players besides me. It's tough! he said, crying into his Tuborg.
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bonedog569
9 posts
Jul 13, 2010
10:03 PM
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Born in the Bronx, kidhood in the burbs - Paramus NJ. School in Buffalo NY for two years where I first played out-Buena Vista on Hertel anyone?
Been in SF since the mid 70's
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Byronski
1 post
Jul 28, 2010
11:21 AM
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Newbie to the forum and new to the harp (8 months)but everyone's got to start somewhere so first of all I'd like to say hi to everyone.
I was born and raised in Irvine (Scotland), wished it was Irvine California but no such luck.
Spent fifteen years in the army so travelled around the world a fair bit but for some reason my wife wanted to come back here, god knows why. She's now my ex wife!
I look forward to some rapid learning now I'm on the forum.
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strawwoodclaw
83 posts
Jul 28, 2010
5:22 PM
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Brighouse West Yorkshire England HD6 3LQ
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dudegizmo
1 post
Sep 16, 2010
5:46 AM
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My name is Guy Peled... Newbie to the forum and new to the harp as well (1 year)... but since I saw the magic of the little instruments through the eyes of players like Adam and Jason I cannot put it down... The only time I am not playing is when it is inappropriate... work mainly... or when my lips are too sore to play...
I am 34 married with two kids and living in Israel.. Own my own IT company... hoping I could make my employees play harp as well :-)
I am starving for communication with harp players as it's not like playing guitar... it's kind of lonely and in Israel it is even lonelier...
I have a facebook page which I document my journey and share resources that I find useful at my level... which is the level of an enthusiastic beginner... You can see it here.
my first post... :-)
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TNFrank
83 posts
Sep 16, 2010
5:59 AM
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Here it is, I was looking for this thread the other day but couldn't find it.
Wow, a little bit of my life story. I was born in Harriman, TN. in June of '61, my birth mom was dying of breast cancer and was in a coma the last month and a half of her pregnancy. Before she went into a coma her and my birth father adopted out my next older brother Kenny because they knew she was dying and papa wouldn't be able to take care of all of the kids alone. There was 8 of us total, two girls that were the oldest and counting me 6 boys. Anyway, Kenny was adopted out and 9 days after I was born momma died and I was adopted out. I spend the 1st 11 years of my life in Taylor, MI.(SW of Detroit) then we moved to Brownsburg, IN(16 miles W. of Indianapolis) after High School we moved to Phoenix, AZ. where I stayed until '94 at which point I moved to Crossville, TN(where I'm at now) to be close to my adopted parents. After dad died in Feb. '01 from cancer mom went in for heart surgery in the last part of March '01 and had a massive stroke a couple days later which would have been early April. I took care of her at home for 3 1/2 years then she went into a nursing home and pass away Aug. '09. I didn't know anything about being adopted until after her stroke while my wife and I were going thru papers looking for wills, deeds, ect. That's when at age 41 I found my adoption papers. I did some research and found my birth family in Harriman and after contacting my older brother Craig I reunited with my birth family. It was like we'd all grown up together, we had so much in common and it was really great to see my birth father. We've all been pretty close ever since.
Long story short, I live in Crossville, TN. :)
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Harps:
Suzuki HarpMaster in C (on order)
Hohner Big River in A
Hohner Hot Metal harps in G, A, C, D,and E
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upstate
10 posts
Sep 16, 2010
7:44 AM
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i live in glens falls ny. i tramped around the country for 20 years or more ive hitch hiked more than 200,000 miles in my life which gave me a lot of time sitting on the side of the road playing harp i play bluegrass rock and blues at jams and open mics around here
im not half bad
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WestVirginiaTom
2 posts
Sep 16, 2010
9:38 AM
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Born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA in 1960.
Family moved to Indianapolis in 1961.
Lived in Indy until I was 13, and my family moved to West Virginia.
Went to high school and college in WV (Go Mountaineers!).
Moved to Charlotte, NC after college and stayed there 8 years.
Moved back to WV in 1992 and have been here since.
I've been playing harmonica since 2009.
I'm at least half bad, but that's not all bad!
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Littoral
82 posts
Sep 16, 2010
2:09 PM
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Sopchoppy, Florida just south of Tallahassee.
...here by way of DC/Maryland and the cradle
of modern civilization, Virginia (blue ridge).
Serious about blues history and playing harp since 1976.
Last Edited by on Sep 16, 2010 2:12 PM
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sammyharp
20 posts
Sep 17, 2010
10:54 PM
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Born in 1977 and raised in the Backwoods of southern New Hampshire, in a town named West Swanzey. Picked up the Harmonica and started playing poorly at the age of 15. Played that way for a while, too.
Moved to Boston in 1996, While attending Boston Conservatory and New England Conservatory for an education in Horn. Stayed in Boston after my schooling, playing lots of gigs on horn, and the occasional gig on harp too. I moved to Hamm, Germany in 2005. Got back into harp 3 years ago after I rediscovered Howard Levy, and decided to start learning overblowing. Doing tons of teaching and playing these days, playing Horn, Trumpet, and Harp.
Last Edited by on Sep 18, 2010 4:53 AM
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mcblues
7 posts
Sep 18, 2010
2:12 PM
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Born in NYC, grew up in Westchester county NY, moved back to NYC for 9 years (in NYC on 9/11/2001)after that sht decided to move to Europe... Holland (NL) 2 years, afterwards moved to Los Angeles where I live now, in Playa del Rey... Right by da beach!!
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SwampBluesTed
19 posts
Oct 03, 2010
10:02 AM
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Born, raised, and still living in Den Helder, the Netherlands.
www.youtube.com/user/SwampBluesTed
Last Edited by on Oct 03, 2010 10:04 AM
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pica-pica
1 post
Nov 06, 2010
9:47 AM
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I've managed to live in the same area of Sweden for my entire life. I'm now a middle-aged wannabe harp-player.
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/ Claes
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clamsharpplayer
11 posts
Nov 06, 2010
10:20 AM
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Born and raised in Milwaukee.
Still live in Milwaukee.
Started playing Harp again after a 15year coma
my friends call me Fat
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Arnoud73
6 posts
Nov 06, 2010
12:23 PM
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I live in Den Helder, a small Harbour town in the North of Holland, with a beautifull sea surrounding the place from 3 sides, it's about one our drive from Amsterdam....
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www.sweetportblues.com
http://www.myspace.com/arnoudbluesharp
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Xpun3414
52 posts
Nov 06, 2010
12:39 PM
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Ok,guess its my turn. This one's simple...
Born & raised in Ozone Park/Maspeth Queens.Now live in upstate -Hudson- NY about 40 minutes south of Albany,on the east side of the Hudson river.
Always liked the harp,but never played... then like a bolt of lighting the need to play hit me.thanks to Little Walter & SBW II. I picked up my first harp in mid July of 2010 (a Hohner Great Little Harp in C) and cant stop playing, I put down the GLH when I got my MB 1896/20 in key of A. Such a better sound..& I think Im stickin' w/ the MB's all the way.
P.S. Welcome to all you new member..Youve found the best place on the net. Enjoy. And Thank you Adam for all you have done for us new players. Your a God send man.
Last Edited by on Nov 06, 2010 1:02 PM
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rharley5652
252 posts
Nov 06, 2010
12:45 PM
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Born,.Raised an Proud of Detroit Mi.
Go Wings !!!
Simply Unique Kustom Mic's // Rharley
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Simply Unique Kustom Mic's By Rharley
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dougharps
1 post
Nov 06, 2010
5:34 PM
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I'm a new member who has lived in Urbana-Champaign, IL most of my adult life.
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Gig74
10 posts
Nov 07, 2010
2:06 AM
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Currently living the dream in fife, Scotland but originally from Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Been learning harp for 6 months and loving it.
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Jagrowler
7 posts
Nov 07, 2010
11:06 AM
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Born - Swindon, UK.
Raised - Stockton-on-Tees, UK
Live - Wakefield, UK
47 years old, and looking for new challenge. Tried harp briefly a few years ago but made zero progress. Latched onto Adams Youtube postings about 6 months ago, and a few weeks ago I dug out an old harp and bought his Beginner and Advanced Beginner packages. Amazingly am making steady progress and loving it!
Hello to everyone, and here's hoping this excellent Forum benefits us all and many many more!
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BigBlindRay
1 post
Nov 17, 2010
9:28 AM
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Hi everyone
31 yo male living right on the beach in Coogee, Sydney (Australia)
I play harmonica in a couple of bands round Sydney and am constantly trying to learn/improve/work on my craft
At times I feel I don't practise enough, other times I have to avoid annoying people (re - Girlfriend) with my practise!
I've always wanted to be a comic book artist or draw cartoons - maybe even illustrate a childrens book.
I've been told I have a sick sense of humour but i manage to make people laugh. Sometimes I offend people (don't be) but I jest.
*Waves*
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toddlgreene
2127 posts
Nov 17, 2010
11:08 AM
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thcou-qui-Next time you pass thru New Orleans, contact myself or HarveyHarp on here!
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Todd L. Greene, Codger-in-training
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Harpengr
11 posts
Nov 18, 2010
3:31 PM
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Born & raised in southeastern Ohio 75 miles southeast of Columbus. Looking for a blues jam in my area.
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pfFredd
1 post
Nov 22, 2010
10:28 AM
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Hey everyone,
To introduce myself, I'm quite green with the harmonica. I was born in Oslo (Norway) and at the moment I live in Madrid. I've been playing the piano for about 16 years, and right now I'm having a lot of fun learning to play the harp, which has been something I have been wanting to do for a very long time! =)
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