Learning To Reed
22 posts
Oct 04, 2011
10:45 AM
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WTF??? From what I've read they weren't all that great...
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arzajac
672 posts
Oct 04, 2011
10:57 AM
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Some are and some aren't. I restored one recently and it's mediocre. I will be turning it into a PowerBender to get the most out of it. There's something about playing a 70 or 80 year old instrument.
The box shown in the Ebay description is in very nice shape.
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Lmbrjak
60 posts
Oct 04, 2011
5:48 PM
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I have a marine band made between 1907 and 1913 that I bought in an antique shop with the original box and it had the original instructions and catalog also. Original price was 35 cents,I paid 12 dollars.( by the way,the instruction book says to tongue block for single notes:)
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
730 posts
Oct 06, 2011
5:06 PM
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Flatten the comb and they'll all play pretty well. That's the primary difference between a good harmonica and a bad one.
That one looks like it would clean up very well with a little TLC and CLR. In the right hands, that would become something of a NOS Mouse Ear Marine Band. It passes all the tests I look for when I'm looking for a harmonica that's been played once and put aside in a desk drawer.
I could see where folks would bid that high on that one. If it had been anything other than key of C, the bidding would have been unreal and I wouldn't blame anybody for it.
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Last Edited by on Oct 06, 2011 5:12 PM
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