Then Martin glanced up at the TV in his room and saw something that changed his life. A local news channel was airing a segment on “Harmonicas for Health,” a program from the COPD Foundation to teach ...

Most nights, you can walk into a blues club and find a harmonica player blowing their heart out onstage. The wailing, honking sound associated with Western movies and juke joints is what many harp ...

About 500 harmonica players have descended onto the San Antonio River Walk for a convention with a single purpose: preserve and promote the fading use of harmonica in popular music. Harmonica ...

For a specific generation of Koreans, playing the harmonica is a reminder of their youth and their home -- whereas not playing the harmonica for decades reminds them of what they left behind to pursue ...

Few instruments have a lower barrier for entry than the humble harmonica. Even if you've never played an instrument in your life, after a few hours of practice, I guarantee you'll manage to learn some ...

Don't be fooled by the harmonica. Sure, more musically inclined cowboys used to whip 'em out around the campfire, and cultures from Eastern to Western and everything in between have laced their ...

The harmonica may not be the first instrument you think of when it comes to jazz and soul music. But acclaimed French-born harmonica player Frederic Yonnet has used the instrument to transcend musical ...

One of the most versatile harmonica players in pop history is Stevie Wonder, shown here in Paris in 1963 at age 13. Charley Ley / Mirrorpix Many harmonica histories begin around 1100 B.C. with the ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Pete DuPré, a U.S. Army veteran, is known as "Harmonica Pete." It is hard to upstage the superstars of the U.S. Women’s National Team but a 96-year-old World War II veteran armed only with a harmonica ...