All the advice here is good. It's important to keep them clean each time you finish playing, and rinse them with water often. I have a set of 7 Tomi Lee Oscar diatonic and and extra C one, and always keep them in a pouch or case when I'm not playing. I first tried to play in the late 1960s shortly after I started to play guitar, but I didn't understand the instructions that came with them about using your tongue to control the breath in the corner of your mouth.
About ten years later I was working on a TV pilot at Paramount starring Al Molinaro from Happy Days and Lyle Waggoner from the Carol Burnett Show. During rehearsal, we had to hold for a couple of hours for the writers to fix a couple of scenes. Sitting around the audience bleachers, Al brought out a ukulele and started playing, then the casting director, an ex-song-and-dance man, started doing a soft shoe, and Lyle pulled out a harmonica and wailed on it.
When they finished, I made a bee line to Lyle and told him I've been trying to play harmonica for years, but just can't get it. He said he'll show me how the same way he was first taught. He took my hand and put the side of it in his mouth and played it like it was a harmonica. WOW, that was all I needed, I got it then and there. I pulled out mine and almost immediately played On Top of Old Smokey.
A couple of weeks later I was working on another pilot with a young actor in one of the supporting roles. On our lunch break, I was sitting off to the side of the stage playing when that guy came over, pulled out a harmonica and played the blues, very well. I asked how to do that, he explained it's a matter of forming a cup with your tongue and adjusting the size of the cup as you blow and pull. Again, I got it quickly because as a kid, I used to snap my tongue really loud, which built up my tongue muscle, which made it fairly easy to form and control the cup.
This is Michael Kohan in Los Angeles, Beverly Grove near the Beverly Center
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