Joining the community

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Dear all,

I have just join the Hohner community and I want to first introduce myself. I began playing the harmonica at 17 (I am now almost 45) after having discovered that the guitar is great but not pocket sized. I was first fond of the blues diatonic and started with a Marine Band MS unfortunately in G.
Years latter, I wanted to move to jazz and bought my first chromatic, a Toots Mellow Tone. Moving to the chromatic was not easy and when I got my first real job, I also chose to take harmonica lessons (with this guy). This lead me to play classical music on the instrument and being mainly focussed on the chromatic even if I still have a serie of Marine Bands and some orchestra harmonicas: a chord and a bass.
I have tried some other brands than Hohner. Whereas there where some quality instruments, only Hohner has both the sound and the customer service to provide spare parts.

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Welcome to the my.hohner forum! As you say, although quite a number of manufacturers now build quality harmonicas, there seems to be something about the Hohner brass reeds and plates which the others don’t have. I test new releases on the harmonica market regularly, and have found some good instruments among them, but for me nothing measures up to the Hohner sound. Of course this is a matter of taste. As you say, the Service Dept. does a great job providing not only spare parts, but also helpful advice if needed.
Enjoy your music! Should you have any queries I’ll be happy to answer them if I can,
regards
Steve