Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Sometime back, Pat ‘The Groovy Guru’ Missin had alerted HRR that Australia’s Boomerang Mouth Organs were sold in America 🇺🇸. He had unearthed a 1924 Pennsylvania advert from Landau’s Music House promoting their Boomerang mouth organs. Later he stumbled on a report that … Continue reading American Boomerangs
Ernest Garibaldi Hosking conjured his inaugural appearance on this mortal coil at the gold mining town of Ballarat in 1861, the seventh child of Samuel Hosking and Mary Hosking. He was a compositor by trade and employed on a ‘spiritist’ newspaper in Melbourne. Ernest was a man of many talents, one of which was the … Continue reading Hosking’s Haunting Harp
Albert's Boomerangs were big in 'Terra Australis' right from the gecko. Made exclusively by Seydel for Frank Albert. You might not be aware that Seydel's Bandmaster, similar in design to some of the Boomerangs, was sold at least as early as 1912 at Flights of Bendigo and even the trademark was lodged for registration 'Down … Continue reading Seydel’s Bob Each Way
Harmonica Riff Raff 