Gizmodo: harmonica

Instructions On Playing The FlashHarp Harmonica USB Drive Come Included

Rosa Golijan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:20:00 EST

It's intended as a fun way to deliver instructional videos to those wanting to play the harmonica, but I don't think I'd spend $55 on those if they didn't come on a playable harmonica-shaped USB flash drive to begin with.

The drive is 4GB of musical goodness and available through the BackyardBrand Etsy store. Geez, gadgets like this make me wish I had a lick of aptitude for playing instruments. [Etsy via Coolest Gadgets via OhGizmo!]

Make a Self-Playing Harmonica With a Printer and a Vacuum Cleaner

Jesus Diaz — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:50:00 EDT

The guys from Stupid Inventions have done another of their stupid inventions: A self-playing harmonica, made of an ink-jet printer and a vacuum cleaner. It "plays" the harmonica while printing. And yes, it's absolutely stupid. [Instructables]

NES Cartridge, Retooled as Harmonica

Mark Wilson — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:13:04 EDT

Anyone who lived through the '80s and had any semblance of cool had their own special technique for blowing in Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges to coax the gray boxes back to glorious 8-bit life. Now one precocious modder has taken this blowing to the next level by gutting an old game and replacing its innards with a harmonica. Consider the dumb video our way of saying don't think so hard now that you're back at work for the week, and that we're sorry you never grew up to become a baseball player/astronaut/cowboy. [via kotaku]

Multitalented Darth Vader Has a Hoedown With Luke Using Advanced Music-Making Device

Charlie White — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:16:00 EDT

Who knew that mouth-breathing thingamajig Darth Vader wears on his face was capable of such down-home, bluesy music? The versatile device is also capable of voice changing, turning Darth's sinister baritone into a rip-roaring hee-haa voice. Darth, we hardly knew ye. [Jibjab]

Hohner Six-Sided Harmonica Plays the Blues Six Ways to Sunday

Charlie White — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:27:28 EDT

Blues harmonica players, or harpists as we like to be called, play the blues for a number of reasons, but one of them is that our diatonic instruments are so limited. When the band changes keys, we have to go rummaging around for another harmonica. Not any more with the Hohner Six-Sided Harmonica made by the company that's been supplying blues harmonicas to the stars for way over a century.

Good thing these harps can be detached from their central hub, because it would be hard to hold that harpists-favorite Shure Green Bullet mic up against this multi-headed contraption. The sextet of harmonicas (heh heh, he said sex) are tuned to the keys of C, D, F, G, A and B flat, and might make you sing the blues when you see their price tag, $299.95. – Charlie White

Product page [Hammacher Schlemmer]