The Call Vol 5

The Call Vol 5

September 2003 The Call Vol 5. Issue 3 Dedicated to the collection, preservation and sharing of information for the Harmonica collector A Publication of Harmonica Collectors International 4. Top: “Over 68 Years”, 25 million 68-year level. Here are a few of the sold annually. Side prices start at 50 models listed on the pyramid that cents, plus Grand Prix Philadelphia you can research. If you can find 1925 with two mediations. This is data and report back to me, I will the most rare of the four. put the information in the next The BRAVO Newsletter. (It is sort of a research Item #2 has some unusual make up project). Models to look for: 132, History of harmonicas and also a higher 346, 1896, 605, 3CND, 152, 153, price structure than the other 54- 146, 254 and 453. Have Fun! HISTORY OF THE HOHNER year pyramid, the prices are at the PYRAMID ROTATING DISPLAY The Editor I thought that with the article on restoration of the display, a little C.H. Weiss, Model 24 (9), The history and associated data was in Worlds Triumph, 10-hole order. diatonic, 4” x 1” with box. The Hohner wooden rotating display was first introduced in 1911 (we The UP TO DATE think). I have seen models at the The Trumpet Call Hohner Museum, made of metal by Latest Finds Harmonica Collectors International both Hohner and Koch and believe LATEST FINDS P.O. Box 6081 theirs to be a much earlier vintage. Chesterfield, MO 63006-6081 The pyramid stands approx. 32” M Hohner Kaiser Wilhelm, high, including the base, which is 11” Deutsche National Musik, 20-hole Gretsch, Playboy, 10-hole x 10 1/2” and holds a large spring and tremolo with 4-tab cover plate diatonic, 4” x 1”, made in a crank to wind it. and a sport logo. Comes with a Germany. A very rare Gretsch hinged box, 6” x 1 1/8”. model with box. Cost of these great displays run the M. Hohner Capathnkam, 16- gambit from $300 to $1,000 depending on the following: Condition, operation, original crank handle, how much hardware is included and in one case, rarity. This is the 1926 Philly model. The display units in my collection include four different models. They are distinguished by the wording at the double hole tremolo, star in logo, top and the prices on each side. 5 1/2” x 1”. Made for the Harmonica As Toys 1. Top: “Over 54 Years”, 8 million Greek(?) market. Has a zinc reed sold annually. Side prices start at 25 plate and comes with a box The United States Board of General cents. Appraisers, in a decision on May 25, sustained the protest of Geo. Borgfeldt & 2. Top: “Over 54 Years”, 10 million Co., the “Wholesale Dept. Store,” that sold annually. Side prices start at 50 cents. harmonicas costing less than 1 mark (24¢) 3. Top: “Over 68 Years”, over 25 were dutiable as toys. The authorities cited million sold annually. Side prices B.A. 1003 and 4679 to fortify their opinion. start at 50 cents. Music Trade Review Vol 38 No 24 1 8 pg. 39 6-11-1904 springs made but the best deal I could to drill new holds, since many times the The Trumpet Call find was for a minimum order of 500 at old screws have broken off in the Published quarterly The Bates piece has a one-piece $1 - $1.25 each. If anyone has a source display. Putting a thin coat of clear By The Harmonica Collectors style with each trumpet tube or if we can get a collective requirement varnish over the wood to preserve the International formed as a single piece. of 500 springs, I will look into it further. lettering may be a good idea, although, Membership Fee The OLD STANDBY at this time it is still under However, the “L” shaped screws can be consideration. You do not want to alter $25.00/Year USA - $30.00/All Others Communication with HCI experts Repairs - Restoration - Inventory replaced and will hold the harps without Alan Bates and Harland Crain the original too much. The CHIMEWOOD the springs. You can purchase #1534, 1 Here is a picture of the hooks, before Ads - Buy - Sell have not determined why or when 11/16” screw hooks at Walmart or a Trade $5/Ad Submitted Articles HOHNER PYRAMID DISPLAY and after. the construction difference was HARDWARD MODIFICATION hardware store. It is a lot of work, but H. Crain Maximum - around 25 - 40 words the result is excellent (the idea, by the Members - No Charge The "Basch" PIPEOLION introduced. Functionally both The wooden rotating display stand is way, is the brain child of Rick Nielsen). (Article submitted by Don Basch) one of the most dramatic and dynamic Send all correspondence, letters, ads, displays ever designed for the retail Step #1: You must straighten out the articles, photos, comments to: Excitement arrived at the Basch trade. The display has a separate base hook end. I used a vise and The Editor household recently when a with a windup spring and crank. The hammer.Step #2: Once flattened, you HCI package was delivered from eBay stand holds nine harps on each of its must decide where to make the “L” P.O. Box 6081 auctioneer Shirley in Janesville, four sides. It utilizes two “L” shaped curve. I used the vise again to bend Chesterfield, MO 63001-6081 screws and a steel spring for each and a hammer to flatten the ends a bit. e-mail [email protected] Wisconsin. Don is a Charter Member of HCI and continues to harmonica. Many of the pyramids have Step #3: You need to paint the screws. Officers: expand his personal harmonica some of the hardware missing. I use a spray can of brown enamel to Harland Crain, President collection. Inside the package I have looked into having the steel match the wood color. You may have Alan Bates, Vice President was a wonderful PIPEOLION Rick Nielsen, Treasurer harmonica manufactured around Harland Crain, Secretary/Editor 1907 by Ch. Weiss in Trossingen, Richard Smith, Club Historian Germany. Prices are also a limiting factor. Being in a anxiously to get home where I can check work the same. If anyone out large urban area, costs are high generally my resources in dating the harmonica. speaking. I have found that traveling out of Pouring over past issues of The Trumpet SUPPORTERS: Don had won the piece over there can shed some light on this question please do give me an the greater Los Angeles area to outlying Call becomes my tireless pursuit. S.P.A.H. several other excited bidders in a small towns helps not only in finding that Hohner, USA recent eBay auction. Shirley later email. The mouth side of the wood special harmonica but also involves lower prices. Although I have been collecting for several NHL (National Harmonica League) revealed that she had acquired the base is covered in nickel plated The ECHO years, my collection is small. Hearing UK) metal. Lettering is impressed with Letters to the Editor My wife and I make a day of it, driving 50 about other collectors’ experiences is piece at an estate auction a few to 100 miles away from Los Angeles to interesting and educational. It’s also a way AHN (American Harmonica months earlier in the Janesville gold paint into the wood base Newsletter) proclaiming: "Full organ tone; NOTES OF A HARMONICA search for something new or different. We of connecting with a memory of my father Harmonica Player (Germany) area. She had paid a mere $155 find it relaxing to get out of the city in hope who played in a 30-man harmonica band for it (or about ten percent of Patent applied for; Pipeolion COLLECTOR German Harmonica Museum IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA of finding something. I also attend antique for a short time in the 1920’s. Every timeI Don's final cost) and unbelievably, Trade Mark; and Made toy shows when I can. find harmonicas pre WWII, I think of how Trossigen, Germany by Ch. Weiss." The seldom- By Donald Kern Harmonica Educator USA she had only one other person my father might have played one just like it. photographed underside of this Harmonica Collecting in Southern Regardless of the outlet, its’ the hunt that’s bidding against her. Goes to show important as much as the object itself. you there still are opportunities piece has the full music score with California can be challenging. While in So for all harmonica collectors out there, DEPARTMENTS: notes for "Home Sweet Home" today’s world more and more reliance on There’s a sense of adventure, not knowing I’m sending greetings from the West Coast. • The ECHO - Letters to the Editor out there for finding rare if that day I will be successful. And if I am, harmonicas at bargain prices. nicely imprinted in gold. This E-bay and the Internet is becoming the Happy hunting to you all and thanks for • The CHIMEWOOD - supposedly provided the player norm, it doesn’t satisfy the feeling of the the rest of the day is elevated. I am caught your thanks for your contributions to Submitted Articles Don only wishes he had been at actual article held in my hand. To be able up in continually turning over the prize in my knowledge. that earlier auction to bid against with his/her music score readily at my hands, testing it for tone, waiting • WORLD RENOWN - hand. to test a harmonica before purchasing is People, Places & Things her.

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