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 Herbert Szymczak (Berlin)

              Ball Szene ( J. Hellmesberger jun.)

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 Vineta Trio

Vineta)-Trio (Werner Zimmermann, Wolfgang Schulz, Alfred PucklitzSsch), ursprünglich waren sie Klarinettisten u. Saxophonisten,1952 Orchester SCHWARZ-WEISS, Juni 1958 erste eigene Produktionen, Rundfunk, farbige Arrangements-verstärkt durch eine Rhythmusgruppe (Melodiegitarre, Vibraphon, Baß), abwechslungsreiches Repertoire (konzertante Unterhaltungsmusik u. moderne Schlagertitel, Jazz u. volkstümliche Weisen), Auslandstourneen, Amiga- Produktionen, Mitwirkung in den bekannten DDR-Unterhaltungssendungen des Fernsehens ("Da Lacht Der Bär"), "BÄRBEL WACHHOLZ-Show", Gastspiele in den Varietés der DDR (Steintor Varieté in Halle, Friedrichstadt Palast in Berlin, Lindenhof in Zwickau, Stadt Prag in Dresden, Haus der heiteren Muse in Leipzig u. Kristallpalast in Magdeburg)

Vineta-Trio (Werner Zimmermann, Wolfgang Schulz, Alfred PucklitzSsch), originally they were clarinetists and saxophonists, 1952 SCHWARZ-WEISS orchestra, June 1958 first own productions, radio, colored arrangements reinforced by a rhythm group (melody guitar, vibraphone, bass) , varied repertoire (concert entertainment music and modern hits, jazz and folk tunes), foreign tours, Amiga productions, participation in the well-known GDR entertainment programs on television ("Da Lacht Der Bär"), "BÄRBEL WACHHOLZ Show", guest performances in the variety shows of the GDR (Steintor Varieté in Halle, Friedrichstadt Palast in Berlin, Lindenhof in Zwickau, City of Prague in Dresden, House of the Cheerful Muse in Leipzig and Kristallpalast in Magdeburg)

                                            Turku 

 Vineta-Boogie

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 Trio Espagnol

          Can Can aus Orpheus in der Unterwelt

                                                                                   
                                                                                

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Staccato Trio 

                             Beka Roka Czardas

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Harmonica Dance Combo 

Stand-up on left the musical director Herbert Szymczak and the last
 on right side  is our friend Dietmar Hummel

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                           Eine Mark für Charlie

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Das Klingende Kleeblatt

  Karl Aßmann (v.l.), Egon Peter und Helmut Nichtewitz.

Harmonikafreunde

                                                                                                                             

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Mundharmonika-Trio Resona

Manfred Spuhn - Dietmar Hummel - Wolfgang Spuhn

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Opti-Trio

                                                                                                                                       Sleep Walk

                                       Boogie

                                Säbeltanz                                                                                                                     

Opti-Trio com Chris Wallasch

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 Trio Montary Leipzig

                                  The canari (Frederic Poliakin)

                                     Kabalevsky "Comedians Galop"

                                            

      

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Aschberg Trio

Aschberg Trio aus Klingenthal (1968-1988) - Reinhard Koschemann acordes, Gerhard Plesch harmónica cromática, e Winfried Knoth baixo

 Es wurde am 2. September 1968 von Reinhard Koschemann, Begleitung, Gerhard Plesch, Chromatische Mundharmonika, sowie Winfried Knoth, Baß, gegründet

Gerhard Plesch 1999

Klingenthaler Zeitung 14.10.2016

      

                                          Vogtländischer Tanz

Gerhard Plesch und Sohn 2005

                                                               Ein Gruss aus Klingenthal - Gerhard Plesch u. sein Sohn

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals

  Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals + Johnny Puleo - USA (25)

Borrah Minevitch's Original Harmonica  Rascals

Harmonica Capers  33 rpm Festival 2111

                                                          Johnny Puleo (with Sgro Brothers) on the Perry Como Show, 1960s

Music: Harmonicist in London   Monday, Feb. 24, 1936   Follow @TIME

Queen's Hall in London is the scene of many a proud orchestral concert, a place where proven virtuosos play, give dignity to music. Last week British brows were raised when a performer without a pedigree announced a Queen's Hall concert. He was Borrah Minevitch, famed as a U. S. comic who plays the harmonica, costumed usually in nobby grey trousers, a loud checked coat, a derby cocked impertinently to one side. This time he was serious, intent on demonstrating the harmonica as a legitimate musical instrument. The Duke & Duchess of Athol bought tickets to hear him. So did Mr. & Mrs. George Arliss, Lord & Lady Cavan, Actress Gertrude Lawrence. Fog penetrated the hall. Many sat bundled in overcoats while Minevitch and nine fellow harmonicists attempted an ambitious Philharmonica Suite, a Minevitch opus divided into three formal movements. Many a Londoner went ready to scoff. The harmonica was only a toy, a gadget that belonged to newsboys and sailors. They left impressed. The harmonica might still be mongrel, but in skillful hands it was capable of countless effects, actually suggested a well-balanced orchestra. Borrah Minevitch was once a harmonica-playing newsboy, a Russian immigrant's son who peddled papers in Boston's Scolay Square, had Calvin Coolidge for a steady customer.* An elder brother made his mark as a chemist in Manhattan. Young Borrah tried to follow suit, studied at City College of New York, failed in English, went to work in a Sixth Avenue shoestore. There, when business was dull, he would draw out his harmonica, strike up a tune. Thus he lost his job. Because he still wanted his college degree, he undertook a thesis, wrote about the harmonica with complete instructions on how to tuck the tongue behind the teeth, when to blow out and when to breathe in, how to cup the sound with the hands to make it vibrate and swell. He invented a system of notation that the feeblest amateur could understand. Every groove on a harmonica is numbered. Thus, for example, we were only playing leap frog was scored to read:                                                                                                                                                                                                 We were only  Blow Draw Blow Blow 6 5 5 6                                                                                                                               Playing leap frog   Blow Draw Blow Blow   7 8 8 7                                                                                                                     Soon Minevitch was a moneymaker, first as a harmonica salesman, then as a vaudevillian. Urchins idolized him, clamored to play with him. In 1926 he organized a troupe of 60 boys, scrubbed them up, taught them manners. But the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was not impressed with his efforts. Now there are some 14 "Harmonica Rascals," their ages ranging from 18 to 24.  Harmonica Institute, play instruments stamped with Minevitch's name. By the sale of these harmonicas alone, Minevitch makes a tidy income. But he has yet to become a serious rival of M. Hohner Inc., the old German concern which puts out 60 different "models as against Minevitch's 20. An excellent showman, Borrah Minevitch mimes every piece his orchestra plays, hunches his shoulders, wiggles his ears. He made headlines in Manhattan when he gave a Carnegie Hall concert using not only harmonicas but handsaws, elastic bands, Jews' harps, tuned coconuts, sweet potatoes. Later an alarm went out that he had been kidnapped by Corsican sailors off the coast of France. Soon afterward he returned to Manhattan with a beard (see cut, p. 40), gained more publicity when a theatre manager refused to let him appear with it, on the ground that it was unsuited to his act.

                                                                        London 1936

                                                                                                                         Liebestraum

                                                               Sleep Beauty

                                                                                                                        JOHNNY PULEO • ENTIRE SHOW • MOULIN ROUGE 1954 •

Love under Fire

Rascals

Rascals with Sammy Ross

Link for Borrah Minevitch and Harmonica Orchestra-outtakes ;https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/1397