Re: [Harp-L] Harmonicas Shipped to Troops in Iraq, Afghanistan

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

I heard this on NPR this morning.

It's a nice gesture, but if they sold those vintage Marine Bands to
collectors, who I think might better appreciate them, they could afford
to send many more harmonicas to the troops.

Winslow

--- Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16612746&ft=1&f=3
> 
> Morning Edition, November 26, 2007 · Herb Shriner, the 1950s homespun
> 
> humorist, once started a harmonica orchestra. This holiday season, 
> Shriner's sons have decided to donate 400 of their late father's
> harmonicas 
> to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The treasure trove of vintage 
> harmonicas ? all of the "Marine Band" model ? had been in a Florida 
> warehouse. As son Wil Shriner told the Sun-Sentinel: Harmonicas are
> easy to 
> pick up and play, and it sure beats sending tubas. 
> 
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