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Title: Harmonica Frank
Post by: Bunker Hill on October 21, 2006, 01:06:05 AM

If this isn't the forum to place this hopefully it will be moved, but I thought folk might like to see Stefan's latest addition to his web site:

http://www.wirz.de/music/harmffrm.htm

Title: Re: Harmonica Frank
Post by: Gumbo on May 18, 2013, 10:08:21 AM

This deserves to be in here, too. Thanks to JRO for posting it in the Youtube thread.
That has to be the maddest harmonica technique I've ever seen.  :o

I always thought he had some secret tuning going on but it looks like standard.

Harmonica Frank Floyd- 3 songs from German TV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aga0Int7x7w#)

Title: Re: Harmonica Frank
Post by: Mike Billo on May 19, 2013, 07:10:10 AM

  I first discovered Harmonica Frank when I bought the Puritan LP, in the early '70's.

I became obsessed.

For my money, Rockabilly officially starts with him. What a wildman!

To this day, I've tried to play Harp, Harmonica Frank style, with it stuck in my mouth like  a cigar and have no idea how it's done. I've seen others do it.
  I'm a practitioner of "tongue blocking" and yet, after all these years, it remains an elusive magic trick

 

Title: Re: Harmonica Frank
Post by: oddenda on May 19, 2013, 06:48:52 PM

That is the same technique used by the great Henry Johnson of SC. Rice Miller (SBW II) did it on occasion, too.

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