Watching a blues harpist this week with a suitcase of harps (harmonicas, gob irons) but seemingly only using four or five all evening* (including, I believe one chromatic one- if those are the ones with the knob on the side), and thinking back to Sonny Terry with his multipocketed dungarees full of harps and at the other end of the scale, Jesse Fuller with one on a neck rack, made me wonder: what is the minimum number a blues harpist can get away with? From some earlier threads, blues harpists on the 'Cat all seem to have at least a dozen...

RtS
(I don't really need to know, but just curious)
[* and he changed his cup mike almost as often, seemed to have three of those)