The7thDave
113 posts
Jun 02, 2010
8:34 AM
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click for source blog entry.
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* BTMFH *
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--Dave
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scojo
5 posts
Jun 02, 2010
8:36 AM
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Is this an ad in the Fantasyland Times?
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Todd Parrott
55 posts
Jun 02, 2010
9:43 AM
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I don't think so - I would love to marry a girl who could blow my harmonica. :-)
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MP
387 posts
Jun 02, 2010
12:39 PM
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i have an 1896 marine band just like the one in the add.
it reads USA patent aug, 26th 1897 on the top cover.
good harp and i gig with it. no sense pickleling a good musical instrument.
Last Edited by on Jun 02, 2010 12:42 PM
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barbequebob
884 posts
Jun 02, 2010
1:14 PM
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You gig with that harp??? I'd never let that leave my house and I have a few pre-WWII Marine Bands myself.
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Boston, MA
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isaacullah
976 posts
Jun 02, 2010
1:31 PM
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Yes. Yes, I AM the most popular boy in my crowd. It has VERY little to do with my harmonica, however. ;)
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MP
388 posts
Jun 02, 2010
1:36 PM
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indeed i do bob.
maybe it's just me but i just love how smooth and fine sounding this MB is compared to all my other MB incarnations.( i have lots good harps).
since it is a D i'll use it for maybe one song in A. it has a sweet 6 OB.
normally i prefer to play A in first and third pos.
Last Edited by on Jun 02, 2010 1:37 PM
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barbequebob
886 posts
Jun 02, 2010
1:41 PM
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MP, I'd never let that leave my house unless I'm gonna be in a recording studio for a session because the brass used on those harps, bell metal brass, the hands down best brass ever made for harmonicas, has been out of production since prior to WWII and no one makes that anymore and I'd wanna cry if those finally died on me.
I have several of them, one of them I gave to my buddy Jerry Portnoy for a birthday present many years ago and he almost fell of his chair when he played it and couldn't believe how well it played.
MP, you are out of your mind gigging with that harp and you'd risk having that getting stolen on you. Heck, just the boxes they came in are pretty cool looking alone.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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harpwrench
283 posts
Jun 02, 2010
2:14 PM
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I have a whole freakin box of them, they're not worth a whole lot if you try to sell them on ebay. If you ever blow yours out Bob, I can repair it with the period-correct brass reeds!
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Tuckster
567 posts
Jun 02, 2010
5:41 PM
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So my question is: why can't they make that brass anymore? Is it some lost formula or a lost art?
And thinking further: I imagine getting the right temper is critical and maybe a black art. How do they do it: heat treat or roll temper?
Last Edited by on Jun 02, 2010 5:52 PM
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nacoran
1984 posts
Jun 02, 2010
6:06 PM
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The old brass has to be bathed in the blood of a woolly mammoth. Unfortunately, they're out of woolly mammoths. They are secretly funding cloning research but so far they have only been able to clone a shirtless New Jersey guy with an overbite, which is actually pretty close, but something in the spray on tan ruins the alchemy and the harmonica always sounds like it has a Jersey/Long Island accent.
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Nate
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MP
389 posts
Jun 02, 2010
10:40 PM
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bob,
i got the box too. it has a real photo of the marine band pasted on top. i keep it at home.
to me it is a fine musical instrument and it needs to be played. hell, it spent the better part of a hundred years just waiting on me.
as harpwrench pointed out,
these harps aren't as rare as one would think.
i think the hardest key to find is probably the Bb which is marked B for some reason.
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Nastyolddog
824 posts
Jun 02, 2010
11:18 PM
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Why should harmonicas be offered only to boys?
in the add it mentions Ann
wouldn't you like to be able to play the harmonica so well you can make your crowd sit up and take notice like BOB and ANN do:)
Does playing harmonica make a lady vulgar?
it's an Add from a 1930's it says from a Popular machanics mag:)
so i guess yes you could be considerd vulgar if you where a woman, not to say they didn't
play the Harmonica back then but she would be seen as less Lady like and possibly a Hussey:)
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MP
391 posts
Jun 03, 2010
1:36 AM
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@nacoran,
thanks! your post reminds me of the discovery channel!
i totally agree with everything in your post save one small, but certainly not insignificant, detail.
it has to be warm wooly blood or you get stress fractures.
Last Edited by on Jun 03, 2010 1:37 AM
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arzajac
210 posts
Jun 03, 2010
3:15 AM
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Hussey! That's the word I was looking for!
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tookatooka
1422 posts
Jun 03, 2010
7:26 AM
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Oh Boy! What tune do you think he's playing to get them all dancing like that?
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toddlgreene
1399 posts
Jun 03, 2010
7:37 AM
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'Baby Got Back', in 12th position.
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walterharp
356 posts
Jun 03, 2010
10:30 AM
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@harpwrench
do you actually think bob would admit to blowing out a harp? with his low breath force method, they are immortal!
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toddlgreene
1402 posts
Jun 03, 2010
10:36 AM
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haha...
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Todd L Greene, Co-Founder
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nacoran
1987 posts
Jun 03, 2010
10:49 AM
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MP, your a genius... instead of spray on tans we'll just put them under sun lamps! It will warm them up and get rid of the spray tan!
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Nate
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LIP RIPPER
228 posts
Jun 03, 2010
11:06 AM
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I play my 1927 "G" all the time. it came with the original box and paperwork. I also have a mid/late 30's "D" that was so mint when I got it that it looked fake. It had never been played. It was new inside and out. For the longest time I just let it sit. I finally sealed the comb and have played it twice. It broke my heart this morning to see that now the cover plate has discolored. I should also mention that the cover plate is folded over on the bottom.
LR
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barbequebob
887 posts
Jun 03, 2010
11:41 AM
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There are about roughly 500 different grades of brass, half of which haven't been made since prior to WWII, as many of those small brass factories making them are long out of business and most harp companies don't order enough to make it profitable compared to a company that makes brass door knobs. Brass is bought by companies in sheets and then cut into millions of reeds, and companies that make brass doorknobs or chandeliers use more brass than harmonicas do.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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MP
396 posts
Jun 03, 2010
5:31 PM
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@nacoran,
maybe clever; rats are clever.
i'm sad, got de blued cuz bob said i'm out of my mind for playing an old harp.
if i was shitty, then it would be a waste.
but i'm a very good player.
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