The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25110   Message #291847
Posted By: Little Hawk
05-Sep-00 - 11:15 PM
Thread Name: Help: Good Harmonica for Beginner?
Subject: RE: Help: Good Harmonica for Beginner?
Yes! Long live telflon (plastic) body combs! Wood combs are a hideous archaic throwback that oughta be consigned to the grave. Well...maybe I'm getting carried away here...okay make 'em for the few that still want 'em.

Blues Harp and Marine Band are fine, but Big River are even better and they cost less...and no wooden comb to cut your lips up.

Mbo - I know just how you want to play that harmonica with the guitar. In that style, you will play a lot of straight harp, but also some blues harp, depending on the song. When you're playing blues style, you use the harmonica that is tuned to the 4rth of the key you are playing in on the guitar. So if you're playing in D, you would use a G harmonica for the blues, a D harmonica for the straight harp. Dylan does a lot of both techniques, but a bit more of straight harp on the whole.