10 things I hate about The Harmonica
- A given harmonica can only play in one key
- And only about five chords
- Whichever key it plays a major scale in, it plays the blues in a different key
- Doing the soulful wailing thing makes it go out of tune
- You tune it by shaving off tiny pieces of metal
- But first you have to open it with a tiny screwdriver
- Also sometimes notes just stop working; again you must open it
- Whatever Bob Dylan was doing with a harmonica, it was not meant for that
- If you play it after drinking something sweet and sticky you’ll ruin it
- I have been stopped at airport security twice now for having a suspicious object in my bag