A Melodica is really cool. In the early years, I had one duct taped to the top of a B-`3 and miked. I had a tube attached to the mouthpiece, so I could blow into it and continue to play the B-3 with both hands. Adjusted correctly at the amp, they sound a lot like harmonicas, if you stay in the correct range.


Really neat, portable instruments. I have two...one I've been playing every night for about 20 years and another my kids got because the other one looks so "ratty"!


Play a harp, too, with guitar. Started when I heard Stevie Wonder play "Fingertips" in 1963. He did a great version of "Alphie" on a chromatic at a White House function recently. Wish I could remember the name of the old Frenchman who did the Billy Joel solo and lots of others. So in demand he gets masters shipped to him, instead of traveling to the studio.

Got lots of blues harps in lots of keys, and a couple of nice chromatics.

Russ