{"items": [{"author": "Sarah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/321389647909610?comment_id=321397011242207", "anchor": "fb-321397011242207", "service": "fb", "text": "Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes:<br>Q:How many Americans does it take to play the harmonica?<br>A:Two. One to hold the harmonica and one to operate the Automatic Harmonica Blower.", "timestamp": "1331815795"}, {"author": "Bryce", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/110073329443149494347", "anchor": "gp-1331819031437", "service": "gp", "text": "Putting crooks (\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crook_%28music%29\n) on accordions sounds like a cool idea, but I wonder whether you'd have the same problem as on horns: if you change the crook, your valves are all suddenly out of tune, because their tubes are the wrong length.", "timestamp": 1331819031}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1331820906606", "service": "gp", "text": "@Bryce\n I don't think you can put a crook on a free reed instrument: the pitch is determined by the reed alone.", "timestamp": 1331820906}, {"author": "Melissa", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/321389647909610?comment_id=321457347902840", "anchor": "fb-321457347902840", "service": "fb", "text": "There's an app for that.", "timestamp": "1331825337"}, {"author": "Hollis", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/321389647909610?comment_id=321482794566962", "anchor": "fb-321482794566962", "service": "fb", "text": "For the crook idea to work, you'd need a crook for every reed and they'd all need to be mounted after the reed (in terms of airstream). You'd then get an instrument of multiple single-pitch oboes...<br><br>I think you'd either need to do the button accordion/concertina models where you get different notes on squeeze and suck (i.e., not piano accordion) or you'd need to have multiple harmonicas per accordion, so you could plumb them in parallel to get the same notes on squeeze and suck. I must admit that I'm intrigued.", "timestamp": "1331827570"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/321389647909610?comment_id=321509451230963", "anchor": "fb-321509451230963", "service": "fb", "text": "@Hollis: cheap harmonicas aren't chromatic, I don't think, so you need more than one harmonica to do a piano-accordion anyway.", "timestamp": "1331830750"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/321389647909610?comment_id=321509887897586", "anchor": "fb-321509887897586", "service": "fb", "text": "(I was thinking more of a cajun accordion or other simple diatonic box)", "timestamp": "1331830813"}, {"author": "Daniel", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/321389647909610?comment_id=321566674558574", "anchor": "fb-321566674558574", "service": "fb", "text": "The folks I know who play klezmer harmonica just bend the pitches to get the accidentals.", "timestamp": "1331837739"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/321389647909610?comment_id=321582167890358", "anchor": "fb-321582167890358", "service": "fb", "text": "@Daniel: I don't think that would work when embedded in an accordion.", "timestamp": "1331839450"}]}