How many other harp players are there in here?
Im into Celtic & old time harp, but seems like most people on other harmonica forums , are just all about blues.
Just wondering who was here
Steve
I’m certain when Steve Shaw wakes up, he will respond to this as well. There are a few of us lurking about. I play more Harmonica than I do anything else lately, though I’m playing Concertina too.
Of course, I’m FAR from one of the better players around.
Oi, I never sleep, I just visit relatives. 
Playing the harmonica and arguing with Christians is all I ever do. My website is still down but I’m hoping to reinstate it soon. There are quite a few threads already deep in the depths of this forum to which I’ve contributed. If you go here and click on “music downloads” you can hear me playing the diatonic harp in Irish (mostly) music.
Steve Shaw , lovely playing , really really like it. I want to learn more of that style.
I am new here I didnt understand about the arguing w/ Christians part , just wondering.
If you do like to argue w/ Christians , you got a new one to engage. I am a Christian.
Cool, I like to argue too, maybe too much 
again , love your playing , I ve got a couple of Irish vids up on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/sjeter61 if you care to take a gander
Steve
Hi, I’m Dan from Alabama. Like you, I love to hear, and play, Celtic and old-time American music on the harmonica. Although I admire the technical expertise of some blues players, I find most blues music a little monotonous and lacking in melody. I love experimenting with new harmonicas; I have played around with some harps in minor-tuning recently, and that has been fun. I also love learning new tunes, I’m always up for a new challenge. Got any good ones?
Bartleby , Yes , Sailor & The Maid. Ive been working on it. I have the different sections down, just have to put them together with more flow. It is really fun to play.
Steve, the Sailor & The Maid sounds like a good one, I’ll have to look it up. Here are some of my favorite tunes to “toot” and the harmonicas I use to play them:
The Girl I Left Behind- G
Arkansas Traveller- C or D
Turkey in the Straw- G
Oh Susana- G
St. Anne’s Reel- C or D
Fisher’s Hornpipe- D
Whiskey Before Breakfast- C or D ( a real challenge!)
Careful who ya spar with there, Stevo! That guy’ll wear you down!
Hey SS, he’s not only Christian…he’s American! 
Probably time to move it to the other forum, and let the games begin! 
Yes, though, lovely playing. 
Hi. I play the harmonica. I’m one of the Christians Steve thinks he’s arguing with. We take turns pretending like we’re arguing with him so the others of us can pray for him.
I’m not into the blues thing either. I picked up the harmonica after my heart surgery for my breathing exercises. Then I picked up the whistle and irish flute and some other things when I needed some accidentals. Get this, I play the harmonica and all the other instruments in the folk group at my Catholic Church. I keep a harmonica in my pocket. Waiting in lines is not my favorite thing in the world but playing my harmonica while I wait is pretty fun.
I don’t think it’s working…
I keep a harmonica in my pocket. Waiting in lines is not my favorite thing in the world but playing my harmonica while I wait is pretty fun.
That’s the idea. I feel naked without a harmonica about my person.
Mr. Steve Shaw, hello Sir, You have been recommended by no less than MT Guru, ask THE man on diatonic ITM,
so I hope we can enjoy some correspondence.
disclaimer , I have bad typing skills , spelling skill & am dyslexic, so you may haver to use your secret decoder ring to figure my words out.
Could I sent you some pm,s with little questions??
since this is the FREE red section , I can say all I want about harp 
yee haw, Christian , American & Texan, we should have fun. and one of my best buds is a agnostic,so I bear you no Ill you stinkin Pagan, just kidding , so I hope you will give me a chance to glean from your vast field of knowledge
Steve
Well, Steve, I know that harmonica talk hasn’t been the number one mainstay of this forum but we’ve still covered a lot of ground! Take a look at these threads:
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/funny-taste-to-my-wood-harmonica/62514/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/new-tutor-for-chromatic-harmonica-in-irish-music/61118/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/tremolo-harmonicas-comparison/61293/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/questions/60495/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/on-line-harmonica-lessons/58186/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/non-itm-harmonica-question/53542/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/playing-harmonica-out-of-both-sides-of-your-mouth/55732/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/jean-sabot-frances-best-kept-harmonica-secret/55725/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/more-harmonica-talk/54651/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/yet-another-harmonica-thread/54176/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/looking-for-harmonica-in-the-irish-tradition-information/53048/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/hohner-xb-40-harmonica/42600/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/harmonica-questions/36875/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/tremolo-harmonicas/38165/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/the-harmonica-whistle-combination/34342/1
You’ll almost certainly find loads of answers already in that lot, and finding them there will be a lot quicker than waiting for me to reply offlist! 
Hello.
I am harp hack. I am not really into playing the blues, so I picked up some harmonica music books that were irish tines rewritten for harmonicas.
Fun stuff.
Re-written for Harmonica? Why in the heck would you need to do that? They play just fine the way they are (mostly).
The book by Glen Weiser takes out all the bending. No bending needed.
I suck at bending, so have a book filled with 110 irish and american fiddle tunes for harmonica with no bending made me smile.
Someday, I will learn how to bend and overblow with consistency. Until then…
No, no … You have to simplify them and take out most of the notes. We’re talking about harmonica players here.
You sure know how to hurt a guy’s feelings.
Glenn’s book was written before Brendan Power “invented” the Paddy Richter tuning. In consequence, a lot of the G tunes in the book are written out for 12-hole harmonica (such as a G-tuned Hohner 364). In my view, these big, clunky harps are best avoided (YMMV) and a G Paddy Richter 10-hole harp used instead. It does mean that the tab in the book won’t work at all well for a proportion of tunes. Glenn’s book is a great collection of tunes with good settings. My opinion of harmonica tab is that it is truly the spawn of the devil and will slow down your learning mightily. Learn by ear!
To each their own learning method. Mine is one of methodical steps. I began with harp tab because it allowed me to play songs NOW. The geek in me knows numbers and orderly systems. And, coming from being a drummer, I cannot read music. I am trying to learn now, though. Music tab is just a stepping stone for me. I can fill in the blanks later when I have the experience.
He’s not talking about reading music. He’s talking about learning to play by ear. It’s a HUGE boost in your ability to learn tunes.