Central to Chicago blues was the harmonica. Marion ‘Little Walter’ Jacobs pioneered a new amplified approach, radically transforming it into a powerful lead instrument. Subsequently ...

His older brother, Teddy, who was learning harmonica at the time, encouraged him to try it. The Tang family found Timothy a music teacher, and the rest is history. His teacher is C. Y. Leo ...

HIROSHIMA--When Tomoni Shintaku first heard the sounds of a harmonica coming from an old paulownia wood chest of drawers, he thought that it must have been a joke his late grandfather left behind.

In the 1980s, the harmonica, as it is also called, started losing ground to guitars and keyboards in popular culture. But the instrument is once again being patronised by the Kannada film industry.

Go back just a couple of generations, and a lot of Hongkongers probably owned a harmonica and knew how to play it. Now, however, the beauty of this miniature instrument largely goes unrecognised.