Harmonica

Ian got a harmonica as a Christmas gift from a friend. He looked a bit surprised when he opened the gift as he has not seen it before, not on tv or books.

Harmonica is a very rare instrument that we hardly see or hear these days. Again, I would say that this could be a forgotten musical instrument that was once very popular during the olden days (I feel so old). Whenever I think of the harmonica I always have the picture of the villages kids where having one and playing proudly to their friends during play. Somehow, the harmonica brings that picture into my mind.

Anyway, daddy knows how to play harmonica and Ian is learning from his dad. But he normally have very short patience and whenever he could not get the tune correctly, he will just simply blew the harmonica and start making noise instead of music with it.

Definition from Wikipedia :

A harmonica is a free reed wind instrument. It has multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds which are secured at one end over an airway slot in which they can freely vibrate. The vibrating reeds repeatedly interrupt the airstream to produce sound.