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[tree_and_leaf]

I've bought a mouth organ, for the purpose of singing with the Cubs, and so as to be able to carry an instrument on hikes and so on. (A diatonic one, namely a Hohner Echo Super Vamper). It only occured to me later that I would also need to buy a book to find out which note is which and how to play the thing properly (though I have thus far this afternoon managed to more or less play 'Amazing Grace' and 'Taps' and something that sounded a bit like 'Mack the Knife'. Unfortunately I have not been able to repeat the trick for any of them)

A good job my flatmate's moved out, really.

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[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

A very Troughtonesque acquisition!

[tree_and_leaf]

I thought that was a recorder? (Which I can, as it happens, play)

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

ISTR (though it might only be in the novelisation) that at the end of 'The Three Doctors', when the second Doctor's recorder has been used to destroy Omega's anti-matter universe, the second Doctor produces a mouth organ on which he plays "a few bars of 'Oh, Susanna', not very well".

[tree_and_leaf]

Ah - haven't seen that! Of course, a mouthie does fit in your pockets rather better...

[mk-tortie.livejournal.com]

This post really made me miss Guides :( I miss singing Taps in multiple different languages! (That was my camp party trick, along with being the only person who could reliably repeat the last line of 'Flea-fly-flow') I really should get back into it when I'm back in London!

I'm sure there must be websites with mouth organ instructions/music.

[tree_and_leaf]

I found a book, which is a bit batshit insane (at one point the author goes off on a rant about how he thinks campfires are embarassing, but then he made a totally random comment about how you can improve the tone of a wooden instrument by soaking it in water OR INDEED WHISKY, so I decided just to go with it...), but is quite clear and helpful. I can now just about play 'Alle meine Entchen,' thouvh I don't think that will impress the Cubs.

I have been missing them, though.