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The World Harmonica Festival is held in the autumn every four years in Trossingen, Germany, home of the Hohner harmonica company.

The last World Harmonica Festival was in 2009, and a harmonica workshop is held every year.

The Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival is held regularly ; in 2008 it was hosted by China.

The contest is held in Yellow Pine about 150 miles outside of Boise, Idaho and is called the Yellow Pine Harmonica Contest.

Also held in August each year is the Bean Blossom Harmonica Contest.

The Alan Bates Harmonica Collection and Archives ( Wilmington, Delaware ), received as a gift in 2000, is second in size and importance only to the Harmonika Museum in Trossingen, Germany.

While Harmonica silently puts the instrument between Frank's teeth as he is dying after their climactic duel, in the German edition his voice ( while Bronson's character is off-screen and the camera is focused on Fonda's face ) says Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod, Frank !.

The character of Jill McBain is supposedly based on Joan Crawford's character Vienna, and Harmonica may be influenced by Sterling Hayden's title character.

The final duel between Frank and Harmonica is shot almost identically to the duel between Kirk Douglas and Rock Hudson in this film.

Neither should it be confused with a firearm having multiple barrels next to each other ( like the Jarre ), which is known as an " Harmonica gun ".

ROBERT BONFIGLIO is playing contemporary music as well with American Composer, Paul Moravec, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for Composition, writing an American Harmonica Concerto for him.

Lowell Liebermann is also writing a Harmonica Concerto to premiere in with the Minnesota Orchestra.

The " Monkey Watusi " is mentioned in the 1964 single " Hey Harmonica Man " by Stevie Wonder.

It is home to the Yellow Pine Harmonica Festival, which is held the first weekend in August of each year and draws two to three thousand fans and musicians to the remote back-country of central Idaho.

Maleeva also has created ' Harmonica ' Harmonica, a brand for organic foods, has a couple of organic food stores in Sofia under the brand ' Biomag ' and is a partner at the Maleeva tennis club.

Harmonica on the album is played by Dave Lipkind from a Portland, Oregon, band called I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House.

Since the demise of AD, he has released solo recordings in the contemporary Christian music genre and is the author of Beginning Blues / Rock Harmonica ( ISBN 0-8256-1154-7 )

One of such musical compilation is the LP: Conroy / Berry Music – Conroy BMLP 160 – Album Title: Conroy Recorded Music Library: Harmonica, 1976, which is a compilation of previous 78 RPM of the 1960s from Berry Music.

Harmonica combs were traditionally made from wood, but now are usually made from plastic ( ABS ) or metal ( including titanium for very high-end instruments ).

In the mid-1990s, to respond to the competing new Lee Oskar Harmonica System by Tombo, Hohner introduced an interchangeably parted harmonica series known as the Modular System, usually abbreviated MS. Over the years, several harps have been added to this system.

Harmonica players who play the instrument while performing on another instrument with their hands ( e. g., an acoustic guitar ) often use an accessory called a " neck rack " or holder to position the instrument in front of their mouth.

Harmonica players who amplified their instrument with microphones and tube amplifiers, such as blues harp players, also have a range of techniques that exploit the properties of the microphone and the amplifier, such as changing the way the hands are cupped around the instrument and the microphone or rhythmically breathing or chanting into the microphone while playing.

The Chinese YMCA Harmonica Orchestra started in the 1960s, with 100 members, most of whom played harmonicas.

American musician Dom Flemons of the Carolina Chocolate Drops plays the quills, a traditional African American pan flute, suspending it in front of his mouth with a Harmonica # Rack or holder | harmonica rack

Hay then introduced DeFord Bailey, the man he had dubbed the " Harmonica Wizard ", with

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He experimented with techniques in his film work, as shown by much of the sonata appearing first in his score for the animation short The Glass Harmonica.

BONFIGLIO performed the World Premiere of the Henry Cowell Harmonica Concerto with the Brooklyn Philharmonic under the great Lucas Foss and the West Coast premiere with David Alan Miller and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

His first RCA recording, with Gerard Schwarz and the New York Chamber Orchestra, featuring the Villa-Lobos Harmonica Concerto, was released to critical acclaim ; he has performed this Concerto over 350 times with major orchestras worldwide.

On January 29, 2010, he performed Henry Cowell's Harmonica Concerto ( 1962 ) with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center.

* Villa-Lobos Harmonica Concerto, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria, with the New York Chamber Symphony, RCA Victor, 1989

* Harmonica America with Phoebe Snow, High Harmony Records, 2007

" Alvin's Harmonica " was the second, " Ragtime Cowboy Joe " the third and " Alvin's Orchestra " the fourth, with B-sides ( like " Mediocre " and " Almost Good ") sometimes featuring non-chipmunk semi-comedic concepts.

Before " Knights of Cydonia ", Wolstenholme sometimes plays " Man With The Harmonica " ( composed by Ennio Morricone ) on harmonica, which fits in with the western style of the song.

** Adagio in C minor for Glass Harmonica, K617, performed by Thomas Bloch with The Brussels Virtuosi, conducted by Marc Grauwels

In 1996, Smith released his solo album, Love Harmonica and toured with his band, Greedy's People which re-recorded his solo album and released it as, Greedy's People in 1997.

In the Spring of 1966, they were joined by Josh Rice ( Vocals, Flute, Harmonica ), who had been the lead singer of a competing band on the Penn Campus, and 2 or 3 months after Josh arrived, Dick and Charles left the band, and were replaced by Bob Grady and Chris Barbieri, on keyboards and bass, both of whom had been in a band with Stu for a couple years previously.

The first four mass-produced stereophonic discs available to the buying public were released in March, 1958 — Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang Volume 1 ( AFSD 5830 ), Railroad – Sounds of a Vanishing Era ( AFSD 5843 ), Lionel – Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra ( AFSD 5849 ) and Marching Along with the Dukes of Dixieland Volume 3 ( AFSD 5851 ).

In 1979, Musselwhite recorded The Harmonica According to Charlie Musselwhite in London for Kicking Mule Records, intended to go with an instructional book ; the album itself became so popular that it has been released on CD.