Somehow, that doesn’t help me feel any better about my inability to learn harmonica. Though in my defense I’ve never been officially diagnosed. 
This news should make Steve feel so much better. :wink;
djm
Recorders (they were first in my interests)
Whistles (lots of cheap ones and a few not-so-cheap ones)
A flute or two (haven’t really learned to play 'em)
Celtic/Folk/Lever harp
Lately, the harp has been dominating my practice time (though I still play the whistles fairly regularly, and enough on recorder to not completely lose it).
Apparently my goal is to be “jack of all trades, master of none”…
We just had a baby (our 5th!) so the harp is probably a better choice if I don’t want to wake her up…
There’s something sort of gross to me about sticking my tongue into the harmonica. No thanks. I’ll take a pass and stick with my gross enough dribbly flute.
I don’t know what kind of tongue you got that fits in those little holes but I sure would like to see a pic.
Ha ha.
I’ve heard that’s how you play the harmonica. That you stick your tongue in the holes.
I’ve been really cutting back on the “instrument aquisition” thing: within the last year I sold all my flutes (Irish fully keyed in D and E flat, a bamboo in E, a Baroque alto flute, a B flat fife) but there’s plenty left:
-Two sets of Highland pipes (the gig set and the pipe band set, pitched at 440 and 453 respectively)
-uilleann pipes
-20 or 30 whistles (in every key except F sharp)
-bodhran (made by Bo Hinricks in the 70’s)
-two sets of Scottish smallpipes
-Scottish 7/8 size set by Glen (c1900) with Swayne “Lowland” chanter
-Cornish doublepipes (has two chanters so you play in harmony)
-Gaita Gallega in C
-extra gaita chanter in B flat I can use in the gig Highland pipes
-Kaba Gaida (I used to have also a djura gaida with four chanters in different keys)
-kaval
-all the sizes of Bolivian panpipes from the bass Toyo up
-Bolivian quenas and quenacho
-set of Bolivian tarkas
-Bolivian bombo
-various recorders I never play- came in handy when my daughter needed one for school
-Appalachian dulcimer (made in West Virginia of course!)
-Takamine Martin-style guitar
-piano
-my grandfather’s fiddle
I’m not going to list as it’s just too embarrassing.
I’m willing to perform publicly on a large number of instruments.
Whether I play any of them is a determination I’ll leave to my audiences.
They always clap wildly and smile but I’ve noticed that it’s always at the end of the song so maybe they’re just excited that I’m finished. Hmmm 
I often wish I had more time to specialize. I’ll have to wait for another season of my life I’m afraid.
Doc [/b]
Wow, jlunt. I live in NC too! And if that avatar is really you, I think you actually live next door to me!
I agree that (diatonic) harmonica is a very easy and fun instrument to pick up on. I went through a phase with it, then progressed to chromatic, which I never could get the hang of at all. (No wonder they called Stevie Wonder “the genius of soul”, or was that Ray Charles?).
Amazing how expensive the old ‘Marine Band’ has gotten over my lifetime, though!
Oh yes you did!!!
I MUST RESIST THE TEMPTATION…
oh, go on… 
Heh heh heh.
aw, go’on, ya know ya want to…
and it will save the rest of us
Do it, Do it , Do it… 
And quickly as I am leaving for Cabo San Lucas in a few hours with a pocketful (so to speak) of harps to cement Us-Mexico musical relationships for the yuletide holidays.
Sandy
This anonymous harmonica I got from Secret Santa has instructions which clearly state “Cover the other holes with your tongue.”
What? No! Shan’t! And you can’t make me!
I manage without that, and can pick off a tune in single notes.
(“Sticking things in holes.” So primitive, my dear, and so amusing.)