About 500 harmonica players have descended onto the San Antonio River Walk for a convention with a single purpose: preserve and promote the fading use of harmonica in popular music. Harmonica ...

Few instruments have a lower barrier for entry than the humble harmonica. Even if you've never played an instrument in your life, after a few hours of practice, I guarantee you'll manage to learn some ...

Harmonicas were commonly called “French harps” or “mouth organs” and mountain men played them superbly. Some still do, though such old-fashioned music is not nearly as common as it was before and ...

The harmonica always has been an instrument of choice for blues musicians because it’s affordable and easy to carry. Mark Hummel, who considers himself a musicologist, is better-known as a bandleader ...

Lynn Massa may forget a lot of things, but he never forgets how to play the harmonica. “I have to check to make sure my head’s still screwed on sometimes,” he joked, “but I can always play a tune.” ...

SOLVING a crossword puzzle one day some 30 years ago, a young Austrian violinist couple named Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger came across a reference to an instrument they had never heard of, ...

Harmonica enthusiasts gathered in San Antonio this week for a convention, filling the River Walk with a bluesy sound. Texas Public Radio's Jack Morgan reports they are trying to breathe new life into ...