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A cluster of quaint narrow back streets near Kichijoji station.
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Where: In Foley Square, Manhattan, New York, USA.
When: Beginning of November 2011.
What: A young woman playing the harmonica during the "Occupy Wall Street" march of November 5, 2011.
Harmonica virtuoso Rolling Jim Stone, Ansonia Hotel, 748 Post Street, San Francisco.
Rolleicord V, Kodak TriX film, photograph taken 1985
Shot outdoor during early evening, with Nissin Di600, modified by reflective umbrella. Light placed at higher than head height of the subject shooting down. The flash is making about 40 degree angle with the plane of the subject. Flash triggered by wifi.
In 1964 Hohner tried to ride the wave of Beatlemania by producing a "Beatles" harmonica. However, by the time the Beatles reached the shores of America they had stopped using the harmonica in their performances. If you look carefully you can see that the box has the wrong photos over Paul McCartney's and George Harrison's signatures. Later editions of the box corrected the mistake. In 1964 this harp sold for $2.98. Hohner only packaged a generic harmonica in the Beatles boxes so there was never really a special Beatles harmonica.
The instrument has a number of glass bowls of different sizes attached to a horizontal axis. As the axis rotates, the musician touches the glass bowls with wet fingers.
Benjamin Franklin is credited as the inventor of the glass harmonica.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georg Friedrich Händel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Strauss, and more than 100 other composers composed works for the glass harmonica; some pieces survived in the repertoire in transcriptions for more conventional instruments.
Unfortunately, this picture is a little blurry.
Czech Museum of Music, Prague