Side Note: 400 Harmonicas Headed To Troops In Middle East
I like this story…I love to play the blues harp, my wife says I play a “mean blues harp”, but she’s biased…you can even hear me play here.
Just felt like a little good news right about now. ~Bash
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The sons of a late harmonica player want to pass along hundreds of his signature, pocket-size instruments to troops overseas.
Herb Shriner’s 53-year-old twin sons, actors Wil and Kin, found about 400 vintage harmonicas in their father’s warehouse near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. They considered donating the instruments to schools or to youth groups, but now want to send them to soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“It beats sending them tubas,” Wil Shriner said. “They’re pretty easy to pick up and play.”
Herb Shriner and his wife died in a car crash in 1970. Shriner hosted a radio show, TV variety show and a game show.
The harmonicas were made by the Hohner Co. in Germany in 1949. Made of wood and brass, the blues harps are about 5 inches long and feature Herb Shriner’s nickname, “Hoosier Boy.”
“It’s a gift to maybe lighten up a tough day. It just slips into the pocket,” said Wil Shriner’s wife, Rebecca Baughman.
(AP)
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Hm, wonder if it’ll start a fad over there, for wailin’ blues!
November 26th, 2007 at 10:16 pmGood point, Brian H.
Let’s see…
“The Dull Blade Beheading Blues”
The “Couldn’t Hear The Apache Blues”
The “Allah Ain’t Directing My Bullets Right Blues”
The “My Sheep’s Got A Yeast Infection Blues”
The “Al Qaeda Wants Me To Blow Myself Up Blues’
What else?
November 26th, 2007 at 10:51 pmThe really REALLY good news here is that they’re NOT banjos!
November 27th, 2007 at 4:46 am