What kind of Harmonica did John Lennon play in Beatle tunes?

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  1. polod

    polod Member Thread Starter

    I.e. Please, Please Me, From Me To You, Love Me Do. Was it a Hohner, what key of harmonicas?
     
  2. John B

    John B Once Blue Gort,<br>now just blue.

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    A used smelly one. He said it tasted like a sack of potatoes
     
  3. Dave D

    Dave D Done!

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    Wasn't it a chromatic? I know there was one note on Love Me Do that I couldn't hit on my regular harmonica. I think it needed the chromatic.
     
  4. Claudio Dirani

    Claudio Dirani A Fly On Apple's Wall

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    Each song is equivalent to the harmonica type, as follows:
    Hohner maker - all of them

    • Love Me Do
    • Please Please Me
    • From Me To You
    • Chains
    • There's A Place
    • I Should Have Known Better
    • I'm a Loser
    • Thank You Girl
    • I'll Get You
    • Little Child
    • For The Benefit of Mr. Kite
    • All Together Now
    • Rocky Racoon


    Chromonica C
    Echo Vamper E
    Echo Vamper C
    Chromonica C
    Chromonica C
    Blues Harp G
    Blues Harp C
    Blues Harp G
    Blues Harp G
    Blues Harp A
    Blues Harp - Ringo Starr
    Blues Harp - Neil Aspinall
    Bass Harp - Mal Evans

    Blues Harp G
    Blues Harp C
     
  5. Dave D

    Dave D Done!

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    Found this:



     
  6. MikePh

    MikePh Forum Resident/Song and Dance Man

    Unsure of manufacturer, but rumour was the harmonica was one that he shoplifted from a store in Arnhem, Holland. From Lennon interview 24-Sep-1974 at WNEW-FM, here's the doctor himself:

    "Brian Jones came over and said "Are you playing a harmonica or a harp on "Love Me Do"?" He knew I'd got this bottom note and he suspected I was... I said a harmonica, you know, with a button... which wasn't real funky blues enough I suppose, but you couldn't get "Hey Baby" licks on a blues harp and we were also doing "Hey Baby" by Bruce Chanel at that time."

    See also:

    http://www.patmissin.com/ffaq/q29.html
     
  7. Dave D

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    :D
     
  8. MikePh

    MikePh Forum Resident/Song and Dance Man

    Great minds google alike :righton:
     
  9. MikePh

    MikePh Forum Resident/Song and Dance Man

    :D
     
  10. posieflump

    posieflump New Member

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    I thought that was his complaint about the harmonica he borrowed from a tech at EMI?
     
  11. MikePh

    MikePh Forum Resident/Song and Dance Man

    I thought that was about one of the barflies from Hamburg :D
     
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