Tommy the Hat
640 posts
Jul 27, 2017
7:10 AM
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Ok, is my mind playing weird games with me or what? I have searched the internet but find nothing. I did find vintage photos of old Marine Bands but the really old photos are black and white so no help. I seem to remember, as a child in the 60's that Marine Bands had the ends of the Tines painted yellow? Or am I just having wrong childhood memories. Or maybe it wasn't Marine Bands? Problem with that is that in the 60's what the hell else would have been around that I would come across?
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The Iceman
3281 posts
Jul 27, 2017
9:33 AM
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oh, I dunno. I remember looking at the tines during the 60's and they were all different day glo colors and were pulsating, for some unexplainable reason...
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dougharps
1516 posts
Jul 27, 2017
11:24 AM
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Those were the TINES?!?!?!?!?!?
I thought those were the notes!
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knight66
29 posts
Jul 27, 2017
11:37 AM
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A sign of the tines, maybe
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the_happy_honker
272 posts
Jul 27, 2017
12:44 PM
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Hohner changed 'em.
The tines, they are a-changin'
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Tommy the Hat
647 posts
Jul 27, 2017
12:51 PM
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Oh, you guys are hilarious. (sarcasm). Don't you know this is history your fooling' with here? This is serious stuff man.
Such TINEy minds!
I guess I'll have to COMB through the internet some more.
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nacoran
9545 posts
Jul 28, 2017
12:52 PM
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You could ask on Harmonica Collectors on Facebook. Doug Dawson or Ken Leiboff might know.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/213998285292044/
They have a particularly specialized set of harmonica knowledge. (Barbeque Bob might know too.)
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timeistight
2164 posts
Jul 28, 2017
3:45 PM
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Combs *were* painted a yellow/orange on the front and black on the the back and ends up until 2011 when sealed combs were introduced. The exact shade probably varied over the 115 years they were doing it.
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Tommy the Hat
655 posts
Jul 28, 2017
4:01 PM
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Thanks timesitight. I just have this vague memory of these yellow dots on harmonicas when I was a kid. It's possible it wasn't even Hohner and just some toy, but I don't remember having any harmonica toys or even seeing any around as a child. My father did by me a marine band when I was very young though. I had to be younger than 7. I still have it although it's in pieces and the covers are rusted. But that comb is brown. I don't know. Strange.
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Last Edited by Tommy the Hat on Jul 28, 2017 4:08 PM
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SuperBee
4842 posts
Jul 28, 2017
5:00 PM
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I've had some more 'yellow' than others iirc. I was surprised at how 'orange' is an early 80s example I have. My late 00s Ab is quite yellow I think, by comparison
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