Re: harmonicas for kids

[Richard Owen <richardo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can barely go wrong with a Hohner Bluesband for $3.95 at a store near me.
I thought they only made them in C but I just saw a bunch of other keys too.
Also, you can go a long (if not all the) way with a Huang Star Performer which
I buy for about $10.95 (I can only recommend the lower keys since I haven't
tried anything above B).  I don't care what anyone else says - they are great
instruments.

+Richard

| From owner-harp-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tue Sep 20 06:17 PDT 1994
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| From: bowerm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mike Bower)
| Subject: harmonicas for kids
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| Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 08:49:58 -0500 (EDT)
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| My daughter posed an indirect but interesting question last night.
| 
| Should would like to get a _cheap_ harminoca but wants a good one to
| play on.  She is NOT a harp player by any stretch of the imagination
| and I don't envision that she will be.  (She is taking piano and flute
| lessons this year.)  But she does like to play around on them like
| I do.  (I have 6-7 harps including two Chromatics but I just play around.
| You couldn't stretch your imagination and call me a harp player either.)
| 
| Anyway, she seems to have her eyes on the Hohner HarmoniKids which is
| an echo model.  Does anybody have an feelings one way or the other about
| what she should get (echo, diatonic, Huang Solo Cadet, what?)?  
| And with her lead, I suspect they will all want to dig into their banks 
| and get one.  (Oh, Joy.  The Noise we can make now!)
| 
| Thanks in advance for your help.
| 
| Michael Bower
| bowerm@xxxxxxxx
|