Summary:
The chromatic instrument has a slider to offer more notes — a 12-hole harmonica will give you 48 notes using the slider. Bits of the harmonica sound were a common feature in Bollywood songs of old — remember Dev Anand in ‘Hai apna dil to awara’ (Solva Saal) and Dharmendra in ‘Yeh dosti…’ (Sholay). Then the disco era dawned, electronic sound followed and the harmonica was forgotten.City-based Nandu Belvalkar, who picked up the harmonica when barely 8, felt that the instrument deserved revival. In February this year, he organised Mumbai’s first-ever full-fledged harmonica show which drew an audience of 300. In 2007, he started India’s first harmonica club in Pune and the response was heartening..