Short Stories

Harmonica Lessons.com visitors submit fiction or non-fiction short stories based on experiences that involve the harmonica or harmonica playing. If you would like to have a short story included in our collection, please note the procedures for submission in the bullet points on the Short Stories main page.

Have you ever put a HARP in your mouth..??Well you think you have..Try this.. Go to the best place you know..put your HARP in you mouth and just let your breath of life intertwine with the brass reeds ..after a while you are listening to your life..in and out..soon you will be captivated with your own sound..let it flow..you have just found inner peace..you have a audiable connection with yourself..search in vain..one will never find a better connection with THE self.. Then play ..let it play ..your HARP does not have to conform..why should it?????the most of us only want to play what has already been written..well learn that by all means..but listen to you soul ..and the connection to your soul is your breath..!!!! Amazing what the HARP can do ..IS it not..???

I was going through a tough divorce..

And was left to sleep in my daughters bedroom..I had brought her a marine band years before which she had never played.. I picked it up and took it to work ..yes ..i could not play it..after a week or two ..it started to get into my soul..so I got a couple of books..and started to mess around.. When my mind went to my problems ..i picked up my harp..soon.. I could play the music book tunes..wow..a 47 year old making music !!! Hells teeth.. I lose the best woman I ever knew..but I gained the best friend one could ever have ..music and the HARP..blow and draw untill you die it makes no difference if you are bad or good ..that little piece of wood..brass..and tin..will give you heaven and hell on earth..play it.. love it..and it will..??? Well we all know the answer to that