Howard Levy Teaches "My Funny Valentine" for Harmonica

[@billyork3379]

Fabulous to learn or just to listen to. Great harmonica work.

[@dariuszrygier]

Amazing, Maestro - the world looks better with such music ....

[@hagenhennrichs8516]

What a great guy... i am seriously impressed and pleased by his very nice personality... i observed the same demeanor in Russell Ferrante... humble and wonderful musicians .... sharing their insights

[@landztranz]

Great, as always, Howard! But how does one decide which harp to use? The one that sounds best? Easiest to play in terms of bends, etc.?

[@detharp]

Bb melodymaker, and get easy along imho ♡♡

[@Redshift313]

Cool 😎 !!! Cool intro too… is it the Flute… damn can’t think of it !!! Hey anyway… I mean no disrespect… but since you’re the Van Halen of Harmonica why not do a EVH song like maybe Ain’t Talkin Bout Love !!! That dang 4 overblown gets me almost every time 😊

[@TheEDub56]

I admire the guy for mastering chromatic play on a diatonic - that can't be easy, but the question is, why? A chromatic harmonica has much better sound larger larger range.

[@TheEDub56]

@Marco Evans I respectfully disagree. The diatonic is much harder to get around on, and compare the sound of the Howard's diatonic to the Toot's chrom. The diatonic has a timbre reminiscent of a saw.

[@larryeisenberg1895]

why? because you can and it is a fun challenge. Expands your diatonic ability, too.

[@landztranz]

@@TheEDub56 I think you agree, Ed, or am I missing something? You seem to prefer the chromatic on this tune. Am I wrong?

[@walletAbsorber]

Less expression and bending

[@AREYESJORGE]

Howard himself has said that he prefers diatonic for expression and bending capabilities. In fact, he doesn't like chromatic harmonica. Most Diatonics harps have 3 octaves of range, like 12 holes chromatics, there are 13 holes diatonic with 4 octaves, like 16 chromatic harps.