IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This harmonica was made by Hohner in ...

Hohner has announced a collaboration with Bob Dylan to offer The Bob Dylan Harmonica Collection. Being the world's most famous harmonicist, you'd be right to wonder why a Bob Dylan signature series ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This Harmonica Tester was made by ...

When you think of harmonica players in the last 50 years, a few come to mind, but none quite like Bob Dylan. The man pretty much codified a style for harmonica playing that all singer/songwriters have ...

When John Lennon was a child his Uncle George gave him a Hohner harmonica, and the youngster learned to play. Inspired by the song “Hey Baby” by Bruce Channel, Lennon began adding it to his band’s ...

Hartmut Berghoff, “Marketing Diversity: The Making of a Global Consumer Product — Hohner’s Harmonicas, 1857–1930,” Enterprise & Society, Oxford University Press, June 2001. www3.oup.co.uk/entsoc/ ...

One of the most versatile harmonica players in pop history is Stevie Wonder, shown here in Paris in 1963 at age 13. Charley Ley / Mirrorpix Many harmonica histories begin around 1100 B.C. with the ...

Most nights, you can walk into a blues club and find a harmonica player blowing their heart out onstage. The wailing, honking sound associated with Western movies and juke joints is what many harp ...

Harmonicas were commonly called “French harps” or “mouth organs” and mountain men played them superbly. Some still do, though such old-fashioned music is not nearly as common as it was before and ...