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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 15:06:23 -0500
From: IL~stal.com
Subject: Re: Why Larry Adler called it "mouth organ"?

At 11:41 AM 03/04/02 -0500, Pat Missin wrote:

>Nidalap :D~
> >
> > I heared rumor sais that the late master Larry Adler insisted to
> > call the instrument "mouth organ" rather than "harmonica", does
> > anybody know why?
>
>Neither "mouth organ" nor "harmonica" are totally accurate names. See:
>
>http://www.patmissin.com/ffaq/q2.html
>
> -- Pat.

I mentioned that Adler didn't like things which were pretentious... I
didn't say anything about a desire for accuracy :))

Douglas t