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              HAPPINESS IS A HOHNER
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The exquisite strains of Vivaldi, Tele-mann and Bach are familiar to afi-cionados of Baroque music. For Boh Thompson, Executive Office MAS, the music has a slightly different sound—he plays it on his harmonica.
Bob began playing the harmonica six years ago, when the enforced inac-tivity following a heart attack began to wear down both him and his wife. Looking for a hobby, he thought of the harmonica, an instrument he had played briefly in his boyhood. The harmonica seemed to suit his needs perfectly. It was inexpensive and easy to carry (an important factor since his work requires some travel). Even bet-ter, it seemed a good weapon in his fight against smoking, so essential to a heart-attack patient, since more than half the notes are drawn.
Once the decision was made, all that remained was to buy the instru-ment and select a teacher. Bob pur-chased a chromatic harmonica, dif-ferent from the Marine Band variety by virtue of a rod which slides back and forth producing sharps and flats. Finding the harmonica wasn't hard, but finding a teacher proved to be something of a challenge.
"Everyone was convinced that all harmonica players are self-taught,"
Bob says. "Fortunately I was in a music store one day and found a Music-Minus-One record for har-monica that plays all the parts but the one you're learning, allowing you to fill it in." The enclosed booklet de-scribed the author of the course: Cham-Ber Huang, who was born in Shanghai, came to this country in 1950 and was teaching harmonica at the Turtle Bay Music School in New York City. "This was just what I was looking for. 1 started taking lessons with him shortly after returning to work."
Bob has high praise for the man who has given him so much over the past several years. Although Cham-Ber, who took the name because of his love for that form of music, teaches, arranges and conducts, he now devotes most of his time to im-proving the design and construction of the harmonica at the Hohner Har-monica Plant in Hicksville, Long Island.
Bob, one of the three advanced stu-dents who arc now carrying on most of Cham-Ber's teaching duties, in-structs at the Third Street Music School in Manhattan on Saturday mornings. (The Third Street school is an H&LS client whose board includes