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I agree with Jake. The Special 20 is a great harmonica and a working man’s classic. But I feel the Lee Oscar is a better alternative as a basic harp because it sounds just as good (or better…to me it does, and bends seem easier), is built as well, is cheaper to own and repair, and offers more tuning options.
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If I am not mistaken , the Special 20 is “just” tuned and the Lee Oskars are 12TET, as is the Golden Melody. I am interested in the other harps you mentioned but find it annoying and inconvenient that you did not enunciate or at least put an interjection or reference to them other than check out your web site. I have a dozen Special 20s. a Few Lee Oskars, some BUSHMAN’s, and some Golden Melodies.. formerly owned some overrated defective unserviceable Brazilian crap.. all have their charm but still leave me looking for an orchestral/professional quality harmonica, I’m not “cheap” I will pay for quality. Thanks for the reviews.. but needed a more simplistic definitive delivery of your choices, ie don’t make me go looking elsewhere.. Bag the sunglasses.
I’d like to try a Yonberg but the price point is just stupid. Yonberg would sell a shed load of these at £30 at £55-60 imo they can go forth and multiply
Jake ….so this video was I dont play special 20s anymore….sorry but after rereviewing some of your harp reviews.. almost every model came with a comparison of that harp and your special 20…which is to say that your reviews werent balanced..Review a harp on its own merits …instead of a comparison review…thank you
Thanks Jake gives me something to think about been at 39 years could use a little mixing up, I do love my 20’s though
I didn’t know why feel sorry for you
Hi Jake I was looking around for a good c harp and o found Suzuki harp just wondering what your suggestion is if I should get it awesome video!!!
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Jake, what special tuning did you get the Power 13 in?
I’ve played so many. Didn’t expect you to say Lee Oskar as a great one, but you are right in pointing out the minor availability and the “less expensive” reed plates. Dunno man, I love Suzuki so much and my go to harps tend to be Honer Blues Harps. I leave them in my car and they hold up fine. Because they are around, I play them a lot and feel comfortable on them. Also, if they get ruined, they aren’t so costly that I’d cry. Oh, and I like my Hohner Pro Harps too. I know. I know. I’m one of those who likes Honer Pro Harps. They look cool and sound good.
Dear Jake,
I have a small problem with my harmonica. The 3 draw on my 10 hole C scale easttop harmonica sounds off. When I try to draw into it, it makes an irritating low pitch sound. When I use my finger to block the other holes and then try to do it provided that the cover is on, then it sounds fine.
I don’t know if this is where I have to post it but can you be able to help me?
Jake could you help me out , looking for a Marine Band Horner Double Reed Key of “G” made in Germany . Where can I buy one ?
dont like tuning of lee oskar but they are very well made
I am inventing the Mason 44. Blown and drawn, you get all 88 keys of a piano. Sure, you said your Power 13 is long, but my Mason 44 is only 34 more holes and you get a nice workout playing it. Sure, I could have stacked it into 3 stacks of 15 holes or so, but that would be just crazy! 😉
Gonna order one. I like the color of yours. Is it the black & white or the silver pearl? Thx Jake
Awesome info! I killed so many Hohner Golden Melodys I had to either quit of take out a loan to buy them by the 12 pack.
You think those Yonbergs will survive? When I play, get “into it” and probably just overstress the reeds, but sometimes they just quit in the middle of a fairly mellow session.
Need a smooth playing SURVIVOR!
You think the Yonberg’s the answer?
Please answer back if you can. I’d like to get back into it. But not if they won’t last.
Hey, I even liked AND subscribed!… C’mon man, give me a recommendation, PLEASE!
And thank you.
I used to play Lee Oskar when I was younger. I stick to the special 20s now because of the reeds. It always seemed to me that they bend too easily and therefore easier to break and faster. Needing to have a replacement constantly became a problem for me eventually. I still have a few that seem to last forever though. Go figure.
I agree with you ! Started changing mine out recently……thanks for the videos too !!!
Hi Jake. I have a question, the Powerdraw harmonica can be as good as Marine Band 1896?
I´m planing to get them in five keys so i would like to make the righ choise.
I apreciate your advise
Thanks
why does mine SUCK
Hiya Jake! Just a question, are reed-plates inter-changeable to change the key of a favourite tuning? ie C to G major, or should i just buy a new one?
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My older (Marine Band Series) Special 20’s were and are still super responsive harmonicas.
However, I bought a set of the newer “Progressive” series Special 20’s and they play like crap. So crappy that I get pissed off every time I look at them or even think about them.
What makes me even more livid is that despite all the review from players who have noticed this difference, Hohner still gives some bullshit political answer of how nothing has really changed. Gaslighting doesn’t work like that, Hohner. We know the difference.
I have a Harrison B-Radical which was hand-made. I had them engraved my name, the company no longer exists because it couldn’t keep up with demand. It maybe the best sounding harmonica I have heard, with hardly any resistance when blowing.
I wish I knew if theres a different in spacing between different holes on a marine band versus a special. I’m not being able to get nice clean single notes on a special 20. Is there another harmonica that has cleaner single tones. I know tilting the harmonica should help as well. any comments would be appreciated.
All Lee Oskar baby. All Lee Oskar.
jAKE i’M RIGHT THERE WITH YOU i WAS A SPECIAL 20 GUY FOR ALONG TIME BUT LIKE YOU SAID THE LEE OSKARS ARE AND HAVE BEEN FOR A LONG WHILE MY FAVORITE BECAUSE I CAN FIX THEM hAPPY HARPIN BROTHER
Ridiculous. Changing reed plates on the SP20 is simplicity itself. Just one more phony fact from Jake. Jake doesn’t know harmonica, he can’t even play one.
Why didn’t you mention any Suzukis they’ve gone a long way with their hearts
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I have played special 20 and Lee Oscars exclusively for years. I find the Lee Oscars hole size and spacing slightly larger, and the Lee Oscars are far more durable. If cost and durability were no option I would only play special 20’s. They are so easy to play, clean and responsive, requiring less air
old marine bands,some custom and some pre war FAR outplay any harps I have
I was just gifted a blues harp. From my son’s broken held together by a ruberband. I would never buy one for myself.. but going to my blues harp…wow what else is out thr. This is so confusing. I hear special 20 everywhere. .nobody digs the blues harp. Or is it me coming from a $5 harp lol help. Top it I play all day every day after 2 weeks it’s shot. I’m so lost.
I can’t believe that anybody is still buying Hohners. There are only two kinds of harmonicas, the ones which leak like screen doors, and the ones which are worth practicing on. Japanese-made Suzukis, Japanese-made Tombos (including Lee Oskar, of course), Seydels (yes, even the stone-age ones with brass reeds) are all good. Chinese-made Suzukis, Chinese-made Tombos, almost any other Chinese harmonicas, and essentially all Hohners, Chinese or German, are landfill. I have a Big River which is tolerable, a Special 20 which isn’t too awful, and a Golden Melody which is actually pretty good in the leak department, though it has the stickiest reeds I’ve ever encountered. Everything else? Waste of money. No more for me, I’m through. I have no idea what Hohners were like five or ten or eighty years ago; I have a couple I’ve had lying around for about sixty years now, but those aren’t playable. All my functional Hohners are from the last couple of year’s production, and most of those are just money down the toilet.
I’ve never heard of Yonberg, I’ll have to take a look.
My go-to harmonicas are Hohner Rocket Amp for standard tunings. For natural minor I always take Lee Oskar. Hohner does not provide nat. minor reedplates for my prefered Rocket harps 🙁
JAKE YOUR A SHOWBOAT CLOWN ! THANKS FOR NOT RESPONDING , YOUR ENTIRE CHANNEL IS BULLSHIT!
None of these are professional instruments, get yourself a custom harp from someone like Joe Spiers. These out of box harmonicas can barely sustain a consistent bend in tune.
Jake I need your help please respond I am not a musician but I am trying to help a disabled veteran who is a musician .
Time is not on his side need to locate a marine band DOUBLE REED key of G harmonic A S A P .
PLEASE RESPOND , people have told me you would help. HELP !
Michael Patrick Walsh
Which model Yonberg do you think is best for blues and bending? Thanks, Jake.
Hi, Jake. I bought a Yonberg TYPHOON D2TyphoonC and I fell in love with the designner and sound of it.
Do you customize your harmonicas?
I feel a hard time running the bends in hole 3
No talent hack here; but love honking out some notes when I can. Your dead on about the Special 20, consistent but often needs replaced. Not cost effective and frustrating.
Back home, (moved recently and haven’t found anybody to jam with here yet) when I’d have the chance to sit in with one of the bands there in Texas; it was frustrating having to go buy a new harp before I could even head to the bar.
My blyes harp I can change my reeds do people go through harmonicasome that quick. Or am I drooling lots. Ugh I don’t understand can what do u do get one in everything. It’s so hard. I don’t want to spend 50 bucks on something that will last 2 weeks.
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Years ago I switched from the Special 20 to the Oskar. Mostly because of the extra tunings but also because the stainless steel covers on the Oskars didn’t rust. The 20s have stainless covers now also, but I am happy with the Oskars and never went back. Both are nice harps. My Youtube channel is mostly tremolo harp, but diatonic is my main instrument because it is more versatile.