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Location: Hyattsville, MD | Hello all,
I'm new here. Erik from Memphis TN, currently living in Hyattsville MD just outside DC. I just bought a Celebrity CC026. Can't afford the higher end stuff! The celebrity is the first acoustic electric I've owned, and after trading in an ailing Ibanez PF3 and an Oscar Schmidt, I must say it is an unusual thing to have a guitar that actually stays in tune...Seriously, I love the sound plugged in, and unplugged my partner tells me it sounds better than the Ibanez, so I'm happy! Hope to see some good guitar stuff here. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Welcome, Erik. Rest assured, if you hang out long enough, you'll definitely see some (questionably) good stuff. And even some stuff about the guitars we all know and love!
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Location: NC | Welcome........great bunch here! This is our refuge! :D |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Erik
Welcome, and I think you are the first to list mouth harps on your instrument inventory. They are something I used to play a lot when my son and I were playing folk and country.
Does anybody else here have blues or other harps in their past, it's an instrument that hasn't been discussed much here, but a good one?
Welcome, enjoy your Ovation and don't be afraid to state your opinion.
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Location: Hyattsville, MD | Well, I don't so much play the harmonicas as just blow into them at various positions, sort of educated guesses, I guess. Bruce Springsteen style, while imagining I'm Junior Wells. |
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Location: Midland, MI | My favorite uncle can blow a mean harp. He has a huge collection of them, from a small, two (or three, can't remember off hand) hole job all the way up to those monstrous chromatic jobs with the plunger on the side to change keys...or whatever.
I bought a Hohner Blues Harp (can't remember the key) when I was young and he tried to teach me, but...it didn't pan out. |
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Location: Hyattsville, MD | Well I have a few harmonicas, I think C,D,E,G, and I want and F# harmonica for this song I just wrote. One of those dumb things where you can't change the key because it feels right in that one, and you just gotta have a harmonica part but you don't have one in that key! There are worse dillemas in the world!
I find that it is pretty easy to get to the point where you can play a decent sounding backup part, very basic stuff. I still can't make the thing sound like I want it too though, or even all that great! |
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