Lee Oskar Major Diatonic Harmonica, C Review

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Hi everyone my name is Mike and today I'd like to show you Lee Oskar Harmonicas. They're harmonicas that you can find in most music stores for about $25.00 and the brand name is Lee Oskar. They come in these black plastic cases and they're designed that you can clip them together if you have more than one, you can see in the clips there and there's like a little rail slide on this side. Basically that's for if you have more than one harmonica and different keys you can clip them together and have a nice little case carrier. But if you don't, the one provides a case to carry around in your pocket, which keeps away lint and stuff from getting in harmonica. It's very easily opened but it stays closed you just push it down, pop it open, it's very sturdy plastic; inside you have your harmonica. This specific harmonica is a C, you can see it says C on the front and it's got some sort of metal with a chrome finish on it and a plastic black -- comb. What I like about this is as a beginner it tells me what key it is on the front and on this side, it says the first position is C; but if you're into playing blues or country or rock you know that you play harmonicas in cross-position. And on this side it tells you what the harmonica is if you play it in a cross position, so this specific harmonica is C is in G when you play cross-position and that's helped me out as beginner. It looks nice like the chrome finish thing has a nice inscription that says Lee Oskar and it has numbers here to tell you what hole you're on. You don't really see that while you're playing but it helps you when you're beginning to try and line up while you're looking at it. The comb like I said is plastic and that's a lot better for me than the wood combs that other brands have. The wood swells up, it wharfs, it gets dampened, I don't know, it just feels dirty after a little while, the plastic -- stays nice and clean. It doesn't cut your lips like wood does sometimes, it doesn't swell and it's always the same no matter what. You can put it under water and it's still going to be the same shape whereas wood is going to swell. It says, based on people who've been playing harmonicas for a long time that this was a good beginners harmonica, so that's why I went with it. And from what I understand now other harmonicas have to be broken in and you have to play them for a week or so before they're really up to their true capability. This harmonica, they say, doesn't need to be broken in I really haven't had any issues with it, playing it without breaking it in; it seems very easy to play it's very easy to blow through; the only problem I have is with the second hole and from my experience any brand of harmonica has issues with the second hole. What's nice about this brand too is that there's screws on the top that you can open up and unscrew and take the harmonica apart and you can replace all the individual reeds or replace them all at once if you want to, I don't know if that's cheaper or more expensive than just buying a brand new harmonica but you will need to buy or replace new reeds or buy a new harmonica because the reeds do wear out if you use them. If you use the harmonica continuously like playing a lot of songs everyday. It's probably only going, only going to last you for about 2 months and that's about on par with all the other brands but if you play kind of randomly but you still play it a lot it's probably going to last you 3 to 4 months. And that isn't quite a long time but that's pretty standard for a harmonica, so plan on replacing your harmonica if you play it an awful lot because it will wear out. I think it sounds pretty good I usually play blues but I'm not that good so I'll just try down the, the scale of notes here just to give you an idea of how it sounds. [Music] Sounds pretty good, like I said, when I play blues I don't find any issues with the way it sounds I like it a lot. It bends easy if you're, if you know how to play the harmonica you know what that means. Like I said the only problem with, the only hole I have a problem with especially with bending is hole 2. I highly recommend it I've learnt quite a lot on this specific harmonica it's the Lee Oskar Harmonica, you can find it for about $25, I highly recommend it.