1 No Ego amongst Melodica Players
2 Better than Saxophone
3 Better than Piano
4 Because the ladies love it ????
5 Has one awesomely loud volume
6 Does not require batteries (or power supply)
7 It makes everyone sound like a
professsional musician
8 Environmentally Friendly... 'Wind Powered'
9 Self Powered, Portable Fire Alarm
10 (thank you Chris!!!) #10 Puts the tube in YouTube.
Number 11 - its up to you email your ideas to kennyandthecaptains@gmail.com
Some Notable Melodica Players
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Kenny (Kenny and the Captains)
Captain Gangles (Kenny and the Captains)
Gordon McKay of The Flute Piano Four (formerly know as the Hairy Banjos)
Martin Wenk of Calexico, Ollie McGill of The Cat Empire
Jon King of Gang of Four, Kevin Skillern of Scales of Motion
Damon Albarn of Blur, The Good, The Bad & The Queen and as 2D in the virtual band Gorillaz, Monty Alexander, Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs while with Oasis
Tim Convy of Ludo, Ian Curtis of Joy Division, Rick Davies of Supertramp
Emmanuel Del Real of Cafe Tacuba, Jack DeJohnette
Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, Zach Gill of Animal Liberation Orchestra
and Jack Johnson, Alison Goldfrapp of Goldfrapp
Martin Gore of Depeche Mode, Mark Hart of Crowded House
Joe Jackson, Andre Matos, Raul Emilio Reyes of Melodica, Melody & Me
Paul McCartney, Charlie McDonnell, David McWane of Big D and the Kids Table
John Medeski of Medeski Martin & Wood, Peter Murphy of Bauhaus
Julia Nunes, Rachel Orke of Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
Augustus Pablo, Hermeto Pascoal
Mike Patton, Krabbers, Pigglies, Mike Piskor of The Suburban Sellouts
Bernard Sumner of Joy Division and New Order, Jahred Shane of Hed PE
Asya of Smoosh, Kaori Tsuchida of The Go! Team
Bernie Worrell of Parliament/Funkadelic, Mawk of Hed PE
LINKS:
What Wiki Thinks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodica
HONHER EU site
