Tryharp
51 posts
Dec 20, 2008
4:01 AM
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Hi guys,
Well the other day I grabbed a MB laying on my desk, I immediately hit a massive 2 hole Nat Riddles style draw bend ( like the first note of his version of " you dont have to go"), something solid just shot out out of the harp, and went straight to the bottom of my lung. Well I naturally did this big gaggy cough and it shot straight back out onto the desk. I first thought with my hack costomising I'd left a nut or something loose in there, but I bent down and had a look at it, and it was a bloody earwig, he'd made a cosy little home in my No. 2. I've been wondering if he had of grabbed on with his nippers down there, if I would have choked and my wife would have found me in the morning laying there, spread out with a marine band near my stretched out hand. Has anyone else had an experience like this.
( I give em a bit of a tap now, and start with a blow note usually, it actually hurt a bit :-} )
Jim
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tookatooka
56 posts
Dec 20, 2008
4:23 AM
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I was reading up on old Harmonica Patents where one guy tried to Patent a mesh device which fit into the holes which prevented such occurences. He was concerned that the odd loose reed may detach and be inhaled into the lung. Didn't catch on though.
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oldwailer
390 posts
Dec 20, 2008
4:42 AM
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I think it was Superchucker who had a story like this a while back--he inhaled a roach. Just reading the story was enough to make me tap may harps before starting out. . .
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Tryharp
52 posts
Dec 20, 2008
5:05 AM
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OW,
Oh yeah, I checked that thread. Is a roach in the mouth, worth an earwig in the lung?
Jim
Last Edited by on Dec 20, 2008 5:06 AM
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Buzadero
6 posts
Dec 20, 2008
8:04 AM
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This could be a very revealing insight into the living conditions of my youth. But, for many years as a young bachelor I lived on the West Bank of the Big River across the bridge from New Orleans, LA. I can't can't count the times that I came in from a stint offshore, had a few days off, and (once I came back home from wild festivizing in the Quarter) would sit down to do some harping. Countless times, I huffed a cockroach, earwig, and who-knows-what-else down my lungs. It happens. The little buggers just know how to ensconce themselves into the tiniest places.
The South is notorious for bugs. In that same house, I had an old clock radio that had the numbers on a little 'roladex' type mechanism. The individual plates dropped into place as the clock turned the time. It finally stopped working. I picked it up off the nightstand after it sitting there for several years. It probably had the live bodies and dead carcasses of a couple thousand little roaches. For the life of me, I could not figure out what opening they could have used to access the interior. My guess is that the small amount of heat that the unit gave off attracted the bastards when the house was freezing and I was off chasing money. They just found a way to squeeze in. Maybe the dead ones got too fat feeding on their comrades and couldn't fit back thru the exit.
Suck 'em up. They won't kill you. Insects are excellent sources of protein and vitamins.
~Buzadero
Underwater Janitor, Patriot
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Buzadero
8 posts
Dec 20, 2008
7:55 PM
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Killjoy.
For you, maybe. My lungs have incredible absorbtion powers.
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superchucker77
114 posts
Dec 20, 2008
8:11 PM
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The things that we harp players go through.
( And yes, I did once suck up a rouch while playing a Big River in G) :(
I now keep all of my harps in a case.
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Brandon Bailey
Superchucker77's Youtube
Last Edited by on Dec 20, 2008 8:11 PM
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SMOKEY
21 posts
Dec 21, 2008
7:28 PM
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I wonder... Does a roach have a warmer tone than an earwig? I'm really going for the Chicago sound. How bout a baby cricket? hmmm? Anyone know what Junior Wells used?
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geordiebluesman
127 posts
Dec 22, 2008
4:33 AM
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If you want to avoid sucking on a roach just make sure YOU'RE the one rolling the joints,OH hang on i might have got the wrong end of the stick there!
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snakes
59 posts
Dec 22, 2008
1:55 PM
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Superchucker,
Is that why you gave up Big Rivers?
geordiebluesman,
You need to buy one of those clippy thingy dings.
LOL!
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superchucker77
116 posts
Dec 22, 2008
2:49 PM
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Snakes, no I just did not like the way that they played. Much to leaky for my tasts.
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Brandon Bailey
Superchucker77's Youtube
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simple jim
Guest
Dec 22, 2008
3:27 PM
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ive love to listen to the blues .after toying with the idea i went out and brought two harps 1 a hohner marine band and 1 a hohner pro harp both in c .ive had them for five days now.i am practising like crazy the only thing thats getting better is me train chugging .but i am struggling to get anywhere near a decent blues sounding rythm.im not trying to run before i can walk ,but if i work hard at it whats the time scale before i might crack the very basics as i love the sound of me new harmonicas and just want to do them justice.any advice would be very welcome.thanks for taking time to read my guest message jim [ uk]
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