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Download Your Copy of Easy Reeding! SUMMER 2014 EASY REEDING HOHNER’S MAGAZINE FOR THE HARMONICA ENTHUSIAST THE HOHNER TRAVELLING ROADSHOW FEATURING RONNIE SHELLIST ARTIST SPOTLIGHT MICKEY RAPHAEL IN THE STUDIO WITH JIM HOKE TECH NOTES THE RESPONSIVE HARMONICA HARMONICA WORLD REVIEWS THE ROCKET HOHNER News CONTENTS HOHNER News 2 NEWS Artist Spotlight 3 All HOHNER Harmonicas Now Come With Free Lessons Mickey Raphael Hohner Harmonicas has given you the gift for diatonic and chromatic harmonica Tech Notes 4 The Responsive Harmonica of education... Now every HOHNER har- for all skill level players. monica includes an insert card with a cou- If you have purchased a qualifying Hohner Our CD Pick 4 Kirk Jellyroll Johnson pon code for a 30 Day Free membership harmonica and did not receive an insert card to Bluesharmonica.com. with a coupon code, you can still sign up for In The Studio 4 At Bluesharmonica.com you’ll have access to free lessons at www.hohnerusa.com. with Jim Hoke over 3,000 video, PDF and MP3 lessons The HOHNER Rocket 5 Reviewed by Pat Missin HOHNER Builds Bono a Custom Birthday Harmonica Hohner Roadshow Dates 6 Recently the Hohner Service Center was approached by a representative of Irish rock Ronnie Shellist 7 band U2 to make a gold harmonica to pres- Meet The HOHNER Travelling Roadshow Ringmaster ent as a birthday gift to their singer, Bono. Designed with gold plated Meisterklasse cov- HOHNER Gives Back 8 ers, gold plated MS reed plates in the key of Stories From Around The World B, and a wooden comb. “Thank you for totally nailing it and coming through for me.....Bono is blown away,” said the U2 representative. The HOHNER Harmonica Travelling Roadshow The Hohner Harmonica Travelling Roadshow is headed to a town near you! Come one, come all to this free event for all ages. The Roadshow features harmonica demonstra- tions and free lessons by nationally known Visit Hohner Artist Ronnie Shellist as well as free harmonica repairs and tons of free HOHNER swag! Check the schedule on page 6 for dates in your area. Chromatic King - Original Blues Songwriting Contest Stay Connected! Original Blues Chromatic Instru- Prizes facebook.com/HohnerMusic mental Songwriting Contest by 1st Prize: Hohner 270 Super Chromonica BluesHarmonica.com and Hohner. Harmonica, Hohner Shirt and Hat pinterest.com/ Enter your original instrumental recording for a 2nd Prize: Hohner Discovery 48 Chromatic HohnerMusic chance to be crowned as the BuesHarmonica. Harmonica, Hohner Shirt and Hat com’s Blues Chromatic King, as well as youtube.com/HohnerUSA given the opportunity to perform your winning 3rd Place: Hohner Tin “Vintage” Signage, song in the grand finale at Mark Hummel’s Hohner Shirt and Hat Blues Harmonica Blowout in January. All Timeline twitter.com/PlayHohner entries will be listened to and commented on Submit your entry before 11/1/14 for a chance by our all-star lineup of judges... blues to be crowned as the Chromatic King! For gplus.to/PlayHohner chromatic wizards Rick Estrin, Mark more details please visit: Hummel and Dennis Gruenling! bluesharmonica.com/chromatic-king 2 | EASY REEDING Did you grow up listening to a lot of differ- ent kinds of music? Mickey Raphael: Well, my mother was very musical. We had a piano in the house and she loved George Gershwin, so she’d play “Rhapsody in Blue” all the time. I guess I just have a real fond memory of that song and all of its different variations. I grew up listening to my mom play music. I didn’t listen to records very much. How old were you when you got your first harmonica? M.R.: I was probably 15. A friend of my dad’s gave me a harmonica and said that if I learned to play “The Old Gray Mare” or We’re just winging it. We’re creating. It’s “different every day. “Oh! Susanna” or one of those old songs, he’d give me the harmonica. That’s kind of how I started out – just sounding out songs. I grew up in Dallas and was want- ing to be a guitar player, but I just wasn’t very good. The harmonica was just some- thing that I walked into. How many harmonicas do you own now? M.R.: Well, you need a minimum set of 12 with each one in a specific key, so I have variations of tunings and doubles of ev- Mickey erything – several hundred I’m sure just because they go out of tune and I don’t mess with tuning them myself. I have a Raphael couple sets that I use in the studio and a couple of sets to use on the road. You just By Kara Pound - karapound.com saxophone genius King Curtis as two of have to be prepared. rofessional harmonica player Michael his biggest influences. Compass caught up Siegfried “Mickey” Raphael has been with Raphael as he was in Los Angeles vis- You’ve recorded with everyone from Em- Ptouring with country legend, Willie Nel- iting friends. mylou Harris to Elton John to U2. Is there son, since 1973. a dream artist or band that you’d love to The Nashville-based “pocket piano” player work with? A Texas-native, Raphael is no stranger to gave some insight into growing up with life on the road. He’s also an accomplished Gershwin, his extensive harmonica collec- M.R.: Ya. I was thinking about that the studio musician who credits blues great tion and what it’s like when Willie Nelson is other day. I would love to record with Paul Paul Butterfield and rhythm and blues your boss. Here’s some of that conversation. Simon. I’ve played with him live before, so continued on page 9 3 Tech Notes about technique and stuff,” Walter said, “I In The Studio just know my harmonica shouldn’t be like with Jelly Roll Johnson this. It should respond to me.” For the player, response is a term used to The Responsive Harmonica. describe how quickly and effortlessly a reed sounds when air (breath) has been A harmonica player named Walter with Jim Hoke introduced. If the note sounds clearly approached a Hohner technician and immediately it is considered “good” Aat a recent road show. He had a Blues response. If the reed makes no sound Harp in new condition but the draw reeds or a weak sound, it is considered “bad” made no sound. The technician tried the response. harmonica and the reeds played smooth, clear and effortless throughout. Puzzled, Often all that is needed on an otherwise the tech handed the harmonica back to well set up harmonica is for the player to Walter and asked for a demonstration. adjust their breath pressure to find the Walter wailed away, attacking the reeds optimum response point for a harmonica. with very hard pressure and restricted However many players prefer not to adjust throat muscles. Under such aggressive their well-practiced and personal tech- technique the reeds could not initiate -- nique. they were being choked. When changing technique is not an op- The tech mentioned to Walter that an tion, adjustments to personalize response easier blowing technique would result in can be made to the harmonica itself. a more consistent sound. “I don’t know continued on page 10 ome years ago, before the music Our CD Pick Sbusiness got all strange from people “New Orleans – The Land of Dreams” (Basin Street Blues) downloading songs for free and CD sales tanked, publishers used to have budgets For my third instrumental album, I decid- Marine Band - ‘Basin Street Blues’ and ‘Didn’t for their writers to cut pretty spiffy demos ed to do a harmonica tribute to the mu- He Ramble’, followed by ‘Do You Know What of their songs. As a harmonica player (and “sic of New Orleans. I have had some of these It Means to Miss New Orleans’, which I en- multi-instrumentalist) I used to enjoy the songs on a list to possibly record for quite joyed playing on a C 270 chromatic. ‘St. high-energy, spontaneous, intense-but- some time. My original thought was to honor James Infirmary’ is played on a G Marine fun marathon sessions where a room full the music of my home state of Louisiana. (Ca- Band in D minor. A harmonica party breaks of good musicians would barrel thru six jun, Zydeco, Swamp Pop, out on the Mardi Gras In- Traditional Jazz). I decided dian chant ‘L’ll Liza Jane’, to just focus on the sounds with Pat Bergeson taking Now they’re really in a of New Orleans. the second harp solo, and “bind. Utterly desperate Growing up in Lake Charles, both of us playing a Bass and out of options, they LA., we would visit family Harmonica breakdown. I do something really in New Orleans very often. am also doing some rhythm Many years later, we had a chugs and doubling on a screwball - they call the small condo on Burgundy Low C Thunderbird, cus- guy who played the part tomized by Joe Filisko. We Street in the French Quarter. in the first place - ME! I would go to Preservation Hall every night to give a shout out to the great Professor Long- hair on ‘Tipitina’, and close with Randy New- soak up the sounds of traditional jazz. songs in a 3-hr. chunk of time. The playful man’s emotional ‘Louisiana 1927’. I decided to keep the band fairly small for this jibes would really fly: “Man, NOBODY’s recording, with Pat Bergeson on guitar, John I hope that this album pays homage to the doing what you’re doing.” “I dig what Jarvis on piano, Charlie Chadwick on bass, spirit and soul of New Orleans.” you’re trying to do.” “That’s something and Chris Brown on drums.
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