Harp

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 5/23/06, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> On 5/23/06, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My native, East-Texas word for it is simply "harp." Playing the harp
> > was way too country for Saint Louis. So, I know only the standard
> > "harmonica" from there. However, in Los Angeles, there are (or were)
> > black country-music clubs on the East Side where, once again, the
> > term used was simply "harp."
>
> Interestingly enough, the song that John Lennon pulled out the harp
> for on the 6/1/63 BBC broadcast was "I Got To Find Baby"

"I Got To Find *My* Baby"

> by the great
> St. Louisian Chuck Berry. (There's no harp on the original, of course
> -- Lennon transposed the sax solo to that instrument.)

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