Mint condition it said… but it sure didn’t taste mint.
There’s a whole lot of different kinds of harmonicas out there, and I had been looking for quite some time for a bass harmonica, and finally one day, I found one I could afford on EBay, the seller located in the US. In the description of the instrument it said that the used harmonica was in mint condition.
A few weeks later after I bought it, I got a notice that I had a package to pick up at the mail office. After picking up the harmonica, I opened the package as I sat down in my car, I put my lips to the harmonica it and blew air carefully into it. I instantly got a hunch of what kind of a person had used the harmonica before me.
An artist, probably traveling around the world with a circus, mesmerizing the audience by playing the harmonica and smoking a cigarette at the same time. Inhaling the smoke and then exhaling it through the harmonica… two shows every night, six days a week, and not to mention all the hours put to practicing… such a dedication to the art.. Wow!
Anyhow, I took it apart carefully, and cleaned it.. and cleaned it, aaaaand cleaned it.
It works great now and the bad taste is gone! I’m using it on a tune not released yet, so let’s see if you hear it when it’s released. Keep your ears open! (Mårten ‘Hotlips’ Forssman, harmonica)
Billy Momo - In Deep 
That’s great you where able to clean it up. Tobacco is so hard to get out of most anything. I look forward to the release of your new song and listening for the vintage, “minty” (as a lot of Ebay sellers put it), tobacco free harmonica.
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Yes Timothy, it sure was great to succeed, because I didn’t know if it would work out.
I got two new used harmonicas the other day, but I won’t try to play them before I clean them. They’re all green inside, but this time I knew they would be.
They seem to be pretty old, so now I’m curious to find out their age also. /Mårten
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