Hello! I'm on the train!

[lambdaminer_edwin]

Off to London, to meet up with the other Pensive Teapots and plot things for the upcoming UK filk con. There may be shenanigans. If there are no shenanigans, something has gone wrong. I am accompanied by Evans the Song, a decent (maybe indecent) collection of harmonicas, and a nagging feeling that I should be marking exams.

Evans the Song, incidentally, is my new 8 string, steel-string, baritone ukulele. By the time there's three modifiers, is it even still a ukulele? I don't care, I think it sounds lovely.

Comments

[little_cinnamon]

The resident Teacup was poking around my instrument collection yesterday and found a harmonica. I may have suggested you are the correct person to ask for advice on playing. It's entirely possible he's already lost interest, but you may find yourself faced with relevant questions... :)

[lambdaminer_edwin]

I can try to answer questions! The trick is that you have to suck. Except when you have to blow.

Perhaps more helpfully, the single most frustrating thing for me when starting was getting a single note out of the thing rather than three or more, except when you actually want more. Once you've got the hang of that you can really get into the important business of bothering the neighbours.

[hrrunka]

Way back when we had a sort-of German Shepherd-ish pooch whose response to the sounds made by a harmonica was to sing along, for somewhat canine values of "sing". Good thing the neighbours were a little distance away....