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Post by Tony Ravenscroft on May 22, 2022 8:49:41 GMT -6
Listed from France at $143.50 + $99.34 -- half-decent price (for a curiosity), sub-stupid s/h. - Johnny Puleo is long dead, may he rest in peace.
- Nobody wants to listen to The Harmonicats, much less rival them, or even imitate them for amusement/annoyance of family and friends.
- The only people buying tremolo harmonicas are idiots who believe they're going to resell some corroded Echo they pay a dollar for at a flea market and buy a lake cabin. Nailing four of them together jacks up the Weird Factor and little else.
- And to top it all off, the modern-day ease and utter sub-prole commonness of sampling means nobody has to actually play a decdedly uncool (and difficult to master) instrument.
That said, I like the sound of a good tremolo, which YES takes two reed sets, tunes one ever-so-slightly off, then makes them fight, and the resulting frequency beat is the "echo."
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Post by Tony Ravenscroft on May 22, 2022 9:09:09 GMT -6
Probably the same model -- the seller says "faces en SOL, FA, DO et une non marquée" so I'll guess the fourth at D (re). At an absurd ask of $187.65 + $71.75, the fact it's been listed 3+ years should give a hint to the seller. Though in worse shape than the previous, we can see it's apparently called the EXTRA FEINE SILBERSTIMMUNG and is sometimes referred to as a quartet example of a "pinwheel" instrument. However, it looks like someone has misarranged the harmonicas. The main purpose of a pinwheel setup is so the player can quickly shift keys or find "lost" incidental notes. Amateur that I am, I figure that ain't gonna happen unless ALL the harmonicas are facing THE SAME DIRECTION. Here it is in half of a typical faux-reptile paperboard box. [NOTE TO SELF: has anyone catalogued a Hohner's era by the box or case it had?]
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Post by Tony Ravenscroft on May 22, 2022 9:51:25 GMT -6
Another variant. Note it's embossed "- TREMOLO - / Harmonica" so I'd guess intended for the Murrican market. The box suggests to me '70s at oldest. Listed at $379 + $22, "flipper" status confirmed by calling it "very rare" "cool" "older" and "vintage" yet making no mention of what keys the harmonicas are. I'll have to revise the thread, because this appears to be properly a model 53/192 M.
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