Finding Aid for the Harmonica Project Collection (MUM00201)

Authors

Document Type

Finding Aid

Collection Date

1980s-1990s

Identifier

MUM00201

General Physical Description Note

7 boxes

Description

Begun in 1989 by Blues Archive Research Associate Walter Liniger and continued by Research Associate Jonny Miles, the Harmonica Project was an interdisciplinary research effort which attempted to analyze the playing styles, equipment preference, influences, and future of the blues harmonica, or blues harp. The collection consists of correspondence between the Archive and various "blues harpists," several instruments, information sheets on musicians, cassette tapes of harmonica players, and incense (?). Part of the project consisted of surveying contemporary harmonica players about their playing styles, influences, instruments, etc. The majority of the correspondence in this collection is between Walter Liniger and the various participants in the Harmonica Project.

Recommended Citation

Harmonica Project Collection (MUM00201). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.

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