Left: Larry Adler with daughter Kate Lynn (2) in Oz. Right: Larry with two lads from the Melbourne Children’s Hospital.
Guess who?
Left: Don Chromatic Duo with John Don and 11 year old daughter Elaine (1949). Right: Master Walter (2years and 3 months) from Auburn, NSW.
Brisbane unemployed (1938)
Just three old random photos.
Salvo’s with the children’s slum mouth organ band – London (Sydney Labor Daily, 1928)
One of Australia’s first female mouth organ exponents Maggie Moore.
Young Aussie Harpists – Left: A young Richard Leeman. Middle: 17 year old Rex Smith on air (1941) Right: Jackie Harrison on the radio too.
Mr J W Preston & Master Norman Lambert performing at the Malvern Town Hall Recital (1938)
Left: Billy Williams (aka Billy Purkiss) former Wagga lad who could play the mouth organ behind his back via rubber tubing. Right: Western Australian George ‘Harmonica’ BrownThe Sandman (Mr J Tyson) on Radio 4GQ (1926 – 1932) – Multi instrumentalist and looks like he had a Hans Rolz Double Horn La Traviata mouth organ.
Berlin Girls School (Brisbane Daily Standard 1927)
Lancashire Novelty Mouth Organ Band (The Brisbane Telegraph, 1932)
Left: Natives Mouth Organ Band Catholic Mission Alexishafen New Guinea (Melbourne Advocate, 1946) Right: Native pupils from the Catholic Mission Alexishafen, New Guinea, presenting a dancing doll display to mouth organ music – heads, arms & feet were inserted into slits of the screen that had painted bodies (Sydney Catholic Weekly, 1953).From a Postcard circa 1909?Mike Jackson entertaining children. (Canberra 1993)
The word descriptions are eye openers too. How on earth did you spot the Sandman had a Traviata. I looked at the link you provided to your blog too. Still don’t know how! I know it’s obvious that you really know your onions re: harps from reading your uploads…….but you REALLY know your harps Shep. All the best and good fortune for the year ahead.
Went back and studied your link photographs again re: the horns for the shapes. Then your recent upload. I was looking at the left photograph! 💡moment. It’s in the one on the right with all those floor scatterings of instruments. And I guess the upper top photograph of ‘Guess who?’ is some very handsome Australian harp player who likes to write about harp history? 🤔 Cheers Shep.
British humour Shep. 😆 Lost in text translation! I didn’t know it was Larry Adler though. It’s 10.17 in the morning here. Bourbon is not present unfortunately. Actually, I’m doing a dry January. Last one I did, 2022, lasted all year. Last year it was a case of ‘only on certain occasions’. This year? Probably need it with the stress of this band thing. Music should be kind for your soul. 😊 Cheers Shep.
😆 Cheers Shep. Just downloaded the Bandcamp app a few minutes ago. This new iPad can take it! The old one had hardly any memory left. So it’ll be good to get at your link suggestions and your own site now. Looking forward to the new song of yours this year. All the best. 👍
Harmonica Riff Raff 
The word descriptions are eye openers too. How on earth did you spot the Sandman had a Traviata. I looked at the link you provided to your blog too. Still don’t know how! I know it’s obvious that you really know your onions re: harps from reading your uploads…….but you REALLY know your harps Shep. All the best and good fortune for the year ahead.
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Elementary my Dear Gray Summers. It has big horns. Cheers and to you too!
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Went back and studied your link photographs again re: the horns for the shapes. Then your recent upload. I was looking at the left photograph! 💡moment. It’s in the one on the right with all those floor scatterings of instruments. And I guess the upper top photograph of ‘Guess who?’ is some very handsome Australian harp player who likes to write about harp history? 🤔 Cheers Shep.
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Yep the photo on the right. The Guess Who is British and would be Larry Adler. Have you had a couple of Bourbons or do I need a couple of Scotch’s? 😂
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British humour Shep. 😆 Lost in text translation! I didn’t know it was Larry Adler though. It’s 10.17 in the morning here. Bourbon is not present unfortunately. Actually, I’m doing a dry January. Last one I did, 2022, lasted all year. Last year it was a case of ‘only on certain occasions’. This year? Probably need it with the stress of this band thing. Music should be kind for your soul. 😊 Cheers Shep.
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Just three letters O. I. C. 😜
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😆 Cheers Shep. Just downloaded the Bandcamp app a few minutes ago. This new iPad can take it! The old one had hardly any memory left. So it’ll be good to get at your link suggestions and your own site now. Looking forward to the new song of yours this year. All the best. 👍
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