Most nights, you can walk into a blues club and find a harmonica player blowing their heart out onstage. The wailing, honking sound associated with Western movies and juke joints is what many harp ...

"By and large, harmonica players are terrible musicians," Johnson says. "Harmonica has gotten a bad name because so many people toy around and (call) themselves harmonica players without knowing ...

Bruce Springsteen played a harmonica duet with a young fan attending his concert in Liverpool before gifting her his own harmonica ...

Scores of the city's musicians attended his 80th birthday celebration last week (a large harmonica-shaped cake was served), with Austin Mayor Steve Adler sending a proclamation to mark the ...

In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable ...

Bob “Hoff” Hoffman had taken up the harmonica in his mid-50s and wanted an attractive way to store and carry the instrument. He met an artist at the Smithsonian’s annual craft show in 2005 ...

One of the most versatile harmonica players in pop history is Stevie Wonder, shown here in Paris in 1963 at age 13. Charley Ley / Mirrorpix Many harmonica histories begin around 1100 B.C. with the ...