Hohner - Blues Harp Harmonica (Key of C)

Bluesharp is a standard from Hoehner, the name in harps. You need to buy a key of C, G, A, D, E to play 95% of songs straight harp. Get your favorite CD or album, listen to a favorite tune, try each harp until you find one that matches the tune, write it down, learn to play along with the song by ear. Better yet, if you play guitar, get a harp yoke and play alone with your chords. You can learn, for blues, cross-harp, using the what, sub-dominant key? which is where the bending comes in. Best to learn straight harp first, play C harp with songs in C, etc. I like to soak a new harp if it has wood spacer, to soften the reeds when new, if wood, trim the swelling with razor blade, if plastic, its ok. Buy a yoke (around neck harmonica holder) and you can play with own guitar OR while driving, along with CD player, hands free, great pastime. Hoehner marine band is a good harp too. Symphonic folks buy a Chromatic, it has a slid so you can play half tones, complete scale get a C and play every note in every song, including "accidentals" which a straight harp can't hit. The Hoenher here will last 10, 20 yrs! Soak it occasionally to clean the reeds. ENJOY!

Hohner's Blues Harp MS Harmonica is an amazing harp with a very classic blues sound that you would expect. Also, as a pure beginner, I took this harp up with no absolute idea of how to play. I started going cowboy with the harp (which most people recommended before doing full on blues). Cowboy is basically slow blowing and drawing that is known in, well basically, cowboy films. So I was cowboy-ing the harp and I just loved the sound. After a few days, I learned how to finally bend notes (same concept as guitar note bending) and I fell in love with the harp. Now I got the Key of C, so most of what I play is Blues Rock, and this specific harp helps with this genre playing due to the ease of bending. Overall, I believe this is an amazing beginner's harp that I would recommend to any beginner harmonica players.