Harmonicas were heard on a handful of recordings in the early 1900s, generally labeled as a "mouth organ". The first jazz or traditional music recordings of harmonicas were made in the U.S. in the mid-1920s. Recordings known at the time as "race records", intended for the black market of the southern states, included solo recordings by DeFord Bailey and duo recordings with a guitarist (Hammie Nixon, Walter Horton, or Sonny Terry). Hillbilly styles were also recorded, intended for white audiences, by Frank Hutchison, Gwen Foster and several other musicians. There are also recordings featuring the harmonica in jug bands, of which the Memphis Jug Band is the most famous. But the harmonica still represented a toy instrument in those years and was associated with the poor. It is also during those years that musicians started experimenting with new techniques such as tongue-blocking, hand effects and the most important innovation of all, the second position, or cross-harp.
MS stands for "Modular System". This means that the combs, covers and reed plates on all the MS-Series harps are interchangeable. Generally speaking, the MS covers come in two styles - Blues Harp and Big River (disregarding the Meisterklasse). The covers on models such as the Blue Midnight, ProHarp, Deuce and a Quarter, Cross Harp and even the Signature Series Harps like the Steven Tyler, Bob Dylan and John Lennon were all based on the Blues Harp. The MS-Series covers do not have the key stamped on the as traditionally, the key on MS Harps is printed on the comb.
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