Welcome. I look forward to hearing more about your progress.
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Thank you toogdog! I’ll report back 
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Hello Master Luke. I am Marcio Scucuglia, 49 years old. I am Brazilian, living in MI, USA; I always wanted to learn Harmonica - I have started several times, I have completed some “learn yourself”, but in the last months I took it serious and I am glad to found you in youtube and later here. Thank you a lot for all the learnings so far, and I am looking forward to learn more
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Hi everyone I’m Cameron from cambridge, England. I started playing harmonica end of last year and absolutely love it. There’s something about playing that gives me a feeling of warmth and absolute happiness. So far I’ve purchased two hohners and two seydels ! Look forward to continue playing for many more years. All my best to you all. God bless !
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@akay13 that’s so Awesome Annie! Welcome to the forum. When is the wedding?
Hey @mailgaryk welcome to the forum my friend! So cool you’re learning in secret. I recommend the car as a good place to practice in private. 
Ha! Love it @Lluvia_Magica
Love your handle too! Magical rain. Glad the site/videos have been helpful, and so glad that you’ve come out of hiding! 
@Barry1 so excited that you’re joining both the course and the forum. Welcome!
@scucugliam welcome meu irmão! My wife and I love Brazilian music and play a lot of it together (she is a musician too.) She sings in Portuguese - but she only learns it phonetically, lol. She doesn’t know what she’s singing. 
In case you missed it, you can check out a solo I played on a Gm harmonica on Agua De Beber at one of our duo performances here.
Hey @Cameronjake from Cambridge, welcome to the forum! Yes I agree with warmth and happiness form the harmonica. So which harp is your favorite?
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It’s difficult to choose. I have a crossover in c which sounds amazing and a seydel lightning in a f. It’s difficult to choose as I’m trying to get use to different playing styles with each one. There all beautiful ! I just hope I can become proficient one day. By the way I really think you’re great ! All my best mate
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Hi Cam from Cambridge, Sounds like you well and truly have the bug. It’s a strangely powerful little instrument. Lots of other addicts here to talk to.
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Hello, im Ricky Herington, ive been playing harmonica for almost 50 yrs., mostly country, blues, rock, folk. Looking foward to chatting. Born and raised in La. , moved to central Fl. I also play sax, ewi wind controller, and 3 row button accordian zydeco .
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Thank you!!
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Hello! I’m André, from Brazil. I’m a 30 yo dentist, who, just out of the blue, decided to play the harmonica. A friend asked “why the harmonica?” and I’ve replied “why not the harmonica?”. Without any previous musical knowledge, I hope it won’t get too overwhelming haha cheers!!
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You’ll be great. Your clearly clever and now you’re in great company.
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OK everything working. This is a really fun course. Thanks for all the work you guys put into this.
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Hey Luke! so excited to finally start learning. Got tired of scrolling through all the youtube lessons. I have only learned to play one song on my own but want to learn the basics so i can add more to my repertoire! Wish me luck!
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Hello. I’m Joel. Just purchased my first harmonica. It’s a Special 20. I just watched your review. I’m not liking the way the corner of the S20 is digging into my hand, and saw you mentioned this issue. I wonder if I got one that’s worse than normal. Lol. Do you know if anyone has sanded that back corner to round it off before? Just a thought. Thanks.
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Hello @JMac69,
welcome to our forum.
Some others and I have answered this question in another thread.
Regards from Astrid
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Hi ! Ken from Johannesburg South Africa.
About 6 weeks in on a diatonic C. Got tongue blocking sorted and am now attempting bending. My question is do raise or lower the tongue while keeping it attached to the instrument ?
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Thank you.
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This is a good lesson to learn:
If it’s not the way you want it, try and fix it.
I remember when I got my first harmonica, I was afraid to do anything to it. After awhile, I realized they are pretty durable. They can take a lickin’ and keep on tickin’.
The other day my Baby Fat IN Bb fell on the ground. I immediately felt it scraping my lip to the point where it got sore.
I opened her up, filed down the bent corner, put her back together and she’s good as new.
Sand it, bang it, or bend it back into place and you should be go to go 
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@Ricky_Herrington welcome to the forum! Happy to have you hear my friend. Very cool all the different stuff you’re doing.
@dettitan Aloha André from Brail, meu irmão. My wife and love Brazilian music and play a lot of it on our duo gigs. She sings in Portuguese, but she just learned it phonetically - no idea what she’s singing. Haha! Here’s a little solo from Agua de Beber
@venezia3 good for you for investing into your musical education. You’re gonna reap great rewards. Welcome aboard!
@JMac69 welcome to the forum Joel! YES, you can sand the corners! You can also use a lighter grip. Remember relaxation is the key to everything.l
@Ken1 Hi thanks for posting here. This would be good to start as a separate thread topic. But the short answer is you raise the back of the tongue while keeping the front on the comb of the harmonica. It’s harder than when lip blocking, but you’ll get it with lots of practice!
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Hi Luke,
I’m a 53 year old singer and multi instrumentalist. Was a pro bassist for a number of years, playing mostly funk, rock, and jazz. But the first instrument that called to me, and the first one I took seriously was the harmonica. I first heard it when I was 9, ironically the player was Dan Ackroyd, as Elwood Blues on the Blues Brothers live album, Briefcase Full Of Blues. lol. I was too young to know they were a “comedy act”, but for those that don’t know their band was made up of cats who were the top blues and soul session cats in the world, Matt Guitar Murphy, Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn from Booker T and the MGs, Paul Schafer on keys, but it’s their version of Downchild blues bands Flip,Flop,Fly - starts with Elwood doing this little shuffle on the harp that then goes into this honkin draw bend, and when I heard that it blew my mind! My father and a beat to shit chromatic harp he gave me - and for some reason - I was immediately able to bend the note to get that sound… but I was 9, and that’s all I could accomplish… I think my folks may have hid it from me, cause I walked around just making that honking blues sound for about 2 weeks… and it disappeared , lol. I didn’t revisit it until I was 15, this was 86, and I was deep into hardcore punk, as well as prog rock, and the funk fusion my father was into, but one day I was at a bookstore with a few bucks and saw A book called harmonica for the musically hopeless, it came with a cassette tape, and a Hohner pocket pal in C. I bought it as a joke, Kinda, and because I thought I was musically, hopeless for some reason… That night, I went home and learned OhWhen the Saints… and I was hooked. Then I discovered Sonny boy, Williamson… And that was it. In my early 20s, I put it down again and picked up the guitar, started playing in grunge bands… It was the early 90s lol. Flash forward, ended up becoming a professional bass player, and then an engineer and sound designer. And stop playing music altogether then at 47, I was diagnosed with ADHD and high masking autism. And I picked a harmonica back up and haven’t looked back.
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