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- noun Plural form of
harmonica .
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Examples
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I’d say that a family which only bans harmonicas from the house would be okay.
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Lets breathe into the harmonicas and make winter music, let's protect women and trust the invisible workings of the collective imagination.
Eve Ensler: Ambiguous UpSparkles From the Heart of the Park: Mic Check/Occupy Wall Street (Part 3) Eve Ensler 2011
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And, for him to be able to come in there and play dueling harmonicas and have Billy Branch sing on ‘Rocket 88’ was really a thrill for him.
The Revolution Continues on Chicago Blues Tribute Album 2011
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The Decemberists pull the Americana card on their sixth studio album, picking up the acoustic guitars, banjos, and harmonicas left behind from those '70s Neil Young records.
Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: This Week's New Music Shawn Amos 2011
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And, for him to be able to come in there and play dueling harmonicas and have Billy Branch sing on ‘Rocket 88’ was really a thrill for him.
The Revolution Continues on Chicago Blues Tribute Album 2011
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Such are the creative issues that inspire Mr. Shirey, who will celebrate his 44th birthday onstage Saturday at Joe's Pub, demonstrating the inherent lyrical allure of such items as the "industrial flute," the enigmatic "Sxipenspiel," a stack of "mutant harmonicas" fed into a pitch-shifting device that makes a "fat, greasy, lumbering pipe-organ sound," a guitar doctored with paper clips and a microphone, and a set of desktop handbells.
A Mad Scientist of Musical Machinery Steve Dollar 2011
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Most tracks just feature harmonicas and guitars, though there's a rickety, piano-centered "Mr. Tambourine Man."
Bob Dylan's 'Witmark Demos' showcases his early days in the studio Allison Stewart 2010
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There was a young man in a handmade sweater who had just arrived from Chicago who had waited until he could come with something to offer and he finally had figured out what to give -- 1,500 harmonicas so that people could learn how to make music by breathing out and breathing in.
Eve Ensler: Ambiguous UpSparkles From the Heart of the Park: Mic Check/Occupy Wall Street (Part 3) Eve Ensler 2011
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Considering the various mid-'60s Dylan tunes he might perform, Hitchcock notes that "I brought a collection of harmonicas and a capo."
Musical History Tour: Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock revisit the '60s 2011
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Cuff links and tie bars and monogrammed harmonicas, hip flasks and pocket knives and stainless-steel ephemera.
Groomsmen Gifts: What Gives? Steve Garbarino 2011
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