After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

In the 1780s, Hopkinson modified a glass harmonica to be played with a keyboard and invented the Bellarmonic, an instrument that utilized the tones of metal balls.

Tommy Reilly played the harmonica and mouth organ music for it, and for Tex Tucker when he played a mouth organ in the show.

One of the early innovators of this approach was Marion " Little Walter " Jacobs, who played the harmonica near a " Bullet " microphone marketed for use by radio taxi dispatchers.

While the Richter-tuned 10-hole chromatic is intended to be played in only one key, the 12 -, 14 -, and 16-hole models ( which are tuned to equal temperament ) allow the musician to play in any key desired with only one harmonica.

Strictly speaking, " diatonic " denotes any harmonica that is designed for playing in only one key ( though the standard " Richter-tuned " diatonic can be played in other keys by forcing its reeds to play tones that are not part of its basic scale ; see Blues harp ).

They are chromatic instruments and are usually played in an East Asian harmonica orchestra instead of the " push-button " chromatic harmonica that is more common in the European / American tradition.

Jimmy Reed played harmonica on most of his blues shuffle recordings.

John Lennon played harmonica on early Beatles ' hits as " Love Me Do ", " Please Please Me ", " I'll Get You " and " I Should Have Known Better ", in the later songs such as " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

In late 2010 Lemmy and Motorhead appeared in a commercial for Kronenbourg beer in which he played harmonica and sang along to a slower version of Ace of Spades.

He was influenced by very few people ; but does recall an elderly, unrecorded, blues singer from that area, Rufus Hanks, who played twelve-string guitar and harmonica.

Willie Brown, mandolin player Fiddlin ' Joe Martin, and harmonica player Leroy Williams played with House on these recordings.

He played a tambura on " Within You Without You ", harmonica on " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Noted for his powerful singing voice with its wide range, Van Vliet also played the harmonica, saxophone and numerous other wind instruments.

Van Vliet also played the harmonica on two songs on Zappa albums: " San Ber ' dino " ( credited as " Bloodshot Rollin ' Red ") on One Size Fits All ( 1975 ) and " Find Her Finer " on Zoot Allures ( 1976 ).

The distinctive harmonica was played by Harry Pitch, who had featured in the 1970 one-hit-wonder " Groovin With Mr Bloe.

Known as " Van the Man " to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands covering the popular hits of the day.

Morrison played saxophone and harmonica and shared vocals with Billy Harrison.

He also played the harmonica.

His father and uncle played violin and his sister played harmonica.

* Sidney Maiden ( born 1923 ), blues musician, a singer and harmonica player who played with guitarist K. C.

Baker played harmonica with the James Coutts ' Scottish Dance Band at Hugh McCaig's Silverstone Party in July 1997.

It also features many solo passages for cello played by Yo-Yo Ma.

In Tuskegee, they played local parties and fraternity parties playing mostly cover tunes and some original songs with their original singer, James Ingram ( another " James Ingram " – not the more famous solo artist ).

Traditionally, double bassists stood when playing solo and sat when they played in the orchestra or opera pit.

Karr was given Koussevitzky's famous solo double bass by Olga Koussevitsky and played it in concerts around the world for 40 years before, in turn, giving the instrument to the International Society of Bassists for talented soloists to use in concert.

The classical guitar is often played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive fingerpicking technique.

The concert harp is large and technically modern, designed for classical music and played solo, as part of chamber ensembles, and in symphony orchestras as well as in popular commercial music.

Many passages for solo harp can be found in 19th century ballet music, particularly in scores for the ballets staged for the Mariinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg, where the harpist Albert Zabel played in the orchestra.

The folk harp or Celtic harp is small to medium-sized and usually designed for traditional music ; it can be played solo or with small groups.

" The New York Times called 1996's Hallelujah Junction " a two-piano work played with appealingly sharp edges ," and 2001's " American Berserk " " a short, volatile solo piano work.

Ostinato riffs (" Kumbengo ") and improvised solo runs (" Birimintingo ") are played at the same time by skilled players.

Within the following six years, Sixx played in the bands 58 and Brides of Destruction, while Lee formed Methods of Mayhem and performed as a solo artist.

* Julian Koster of the band Neutral Milk Hotel played the singing saw, along with other instruments, in the band and currently plays the saw in his solo project, The Music Tapes.

Hay maintains a successful solo career and has played with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.

Punk rock is usually played in small bands rather than by solo artists.

He also played a major part in Cher's early solo career with recordings such as " Bang Bang " and " You Better Sit Down Kids ".

The song " Blue Valentines " was also unique for Waits in that it featured a desolate arrangement of solo electric guitar played by Ray Crawford, accompanied by Waits ' vocal.

During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each others ' solo records ; Lynne and Petty worked on Orbison's final album Mystery Girl ( 1988 ), Harrison played on Dylan's Under the Red Sky ( 1990 ), and Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne's Armchair Theatre ( 1990 ); Lynne produced Petty's solo albums Full Moon Fever ( 1989 ) ( which involved all the Wilburys, save for Dylan ) and Highway Companion ( 2006 ), as well as the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Into the Great Wide Open ( 1991 ).

Another three-player variation is " Sevens " in which one player plays against two players as a team, with the game being played to seven points ; if the two player team gets to seven first, the game is over, but if the solo player gets to seven first then the game continues to 14 ; if the solo player again reaches 14 first, then the game continues to 21, where the game ends regardless of whether the solo player or the two player team reach 21 first.

At post game, " In My Life " by The Beatles is played featuring a sousaphone solo while the band sings.

In terms of musical note frequency, the averaging of the frequency of low or high notes in a solo instrumental piece is a technique used to match different instruments together so they may be played together.

Announcing that the two pieces would be separated by an " interlude " played by tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, Ellington proceeded to lead the band through the two pieces, with Gonsalves ' 28-chorus marathon solo whipping the crowd into a frenzy, leading the Maestro to play way beyond the curfew time despite urgent pleas from Festive organizer George Wein to bring the program to an end.

They are played by solo instrumentalists or by bands / ensembles, most frequently with lead instruments such as accordion fiddle, diatonic accordion, hardingfele and nyckelharpa.