Ugly Bones Ryan
59 posts
Mar 09, 2014
1:10 PM
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I'm sure this question has come up but I wasn't here for it. How old is everyone? I just turned 18 last month. I'm just wondering what the average age is for harp players aproximately.
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Rick Davis
3047 posts
Mar 09, 2014
1:24 PM
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The Blues Harp Amps Blog did a poll of hundreds of harp players back in 2011. The average age of poll participants was 51 years.
I am older than that. ;-)
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SuperBee
1740 posts
Mar 09, 2014
1:37 PM
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50
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2chops
224 posts
Mar 09, 2014
2:11 PM
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49
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ridge
490 posts
Mar 09, 2014
2:12 PM
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29
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BronzeWailer
1225 posts
Mar 09, 2014
2:16 PM
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Closing in on 53 (according to "the man"). Twentysomething in my head.
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nacoran
7592 posts
Mar 09, 2014
2:17 PM
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I'm old enough that I know the answer, but I don't know the question. (Douglas Adams reference)
Average ages are going to always look 'old' to young players. If you have an 18 year old and a 70 year old that averages out to a middle aged 44. Mean, median, mode would be an interesting breakdown and probably mean more for demographic purposes.
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Pistolcat
605 posts
Mar 09, 2014
3:03 PM
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31.
@ Nate and Ryan- average age of harp players isn't measurable with the way you ask the question (low valiability). The best thing you can hope to get an answer on is the question: "What is the mean age of harmonica players that have a account on MBH and are reading and answering OT threads?" I'm afraid it's quite biased :). I agree with Nate that mean may not be as interesting as a way to show the spread. I'd say a classic histogram would do the trick.
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Rarko
101 posts
Mar 09, 2014
3:23 PM
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30 (and I started to play harmonica 2 years ago... maybe that would be interesting information to add for this thread, what do you think? so how long do you play harmonica? :) )
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Rick Davis
3049 posts
Mar 09, 2014
3:29 PM
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I've been playing harp for, uh, 41 years. My first pro gig was in 1976. My, how time does fly, eh?
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BluesJacketman
95 posts
Mar 09, 2014
3:48 PM
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24, played around with my grandfathers harmonicas as a kid, got one when I was 16 but i didn't start taking it seriously until I was 18/19.
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Old newbie
3 posts
Mar 09, 2014
4:10 PM
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50, bought first harp 2 months ago.
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Slimharp
234 posts
Mar 09, 2014
4:14 PM
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64 Got a Chromatic when I was 13 ( 1963-64 ) when I was hot on Stevie wonders first album on Tamala Label" The Jazz/Soul of Little Stevie Wonder " I got serious when I saw Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 1967.
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HawkeyeKane
2351 posts
Mar 09, 2014
4:41 PM
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28 myself, 2 months shy of 29.
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nacoran
7596 posts
Mar 09, 2014
4:59 PM
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Okay, to add the 'length of playing', shoot, I've lost track, but my first few posts on the forum I was roughly at the 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' stage of harp, and the site was pretty new.
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isaacullah
2664 posts
Mar 09, 2014
5:00 PM
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34 (but mentally, I'm still 20) :)
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nacoran
7597 posts
Mar 09, 2014
5:20 PM
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Looking at the thread about 2000 posters, it looks like the site started in 2008, so that would be about when I started playing harp too. I remember I started around Christmas time.
Here is the list of then 2000 posters.
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/5347913.htm
There might be some info on the 'Where are you from thread'
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/427713.htm
And in related demographic information, we have a forum map-
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/512982.htm
:)
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bloozefish
161 posts
Mar 09, 2014
5:50 PM
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Old enough to remember when you could tell a harp player was serious, because he soaked his harps before a gig
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jbone
1534 posts
Mar 09, 2014
6:18 PM
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59. Got my first at age 16 but I was just bad for years after that. Technically I've been playing for about 43 years but I began to actually make real progress about 23 years ago. 14 or 15 ago I began to reach a level I like.
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12gagedan
300 posts
Mar 09, 2014
7:08 PM
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38
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Jim Rumbaugh
966 posts
Mar 09, 2014
7:12 PM
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61
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theharmonicaclub.com (of Huntington, WV)
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kudzurunner
4592 posts
Mar 09, 2014
7:23 PM
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55
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Gkastraveckas
22 posts
Mar 09, 2014
7:27 PM
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28, playing straight harp on a rack for about 10 years, never even considered blues til about 3 years ago. Totally different animal.
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