Bruce Wharton

About Me

I was born and raised in Minnesota just northeast of the cities on White Bear Lake. I have lived in Germany coming on about 22 years now. I cannot get rid of my Minnesotan accent though ya know.
You can take the boy outa the country but not the country outa the boy. I am well traveled and have seen and have experienced a lot. Although a proud American I now consider myself a European. After you've been around you see the world from a different angle I figure.

I have a real neat
wife and four lovely girls (well, my youngest is going to turn 3 - she is still a little shit) and a grandaughter. Yeh I know, I don't have a chance. Evan our cat is female. If anyone wants to read a good book get "Revenge of the Cat" by Claud Balls - hehe.

I got my first harp
for my 10th birthday. I think it was an American Ace or an Old Standby. The
first real song I learned was a song called "The Siene" by the Kingston Trio. I
heard, "Can you play that song Far Away?" all the time. I never knew what the
blues were. I really did not get into playing any blues until I met a dude at
Larry Blakes in Berkeley, CA. He got me going on blues in about ten minutes. I
wish I could remember his name. Ricky Kellog I think . If you are out there man
- thanks!!!!! Back then Robert Cray and Tim Kaihatsu and the House Band used to
play - it was a blues joint back then. A few years later I saw Clint Hoover in
Frogtown at a place called the Blues Saloon. He was a young cool cat with a
Darth Vader CX12. What a show.

Unfortunately my
harps would stay in the drawer sometimes for months or years. I recently became
involved with a German Harmonica forum called Jack-black.de. I started getting
serious with it and have learned that the internet was full of teaching tools and
pros that give online lessons. So I am getting better.

I help organize getting harp pros to come over to
Klingenthal, Germany for the yearly Mundharmonika Live Festival to teach their
skill and craft. Last years we were honered with having Adam Gussow and Charlie
Hilbert teach play and jam. We have had Charlie McCoy, Howard Levy and many
other great players attend. Mundharmonika Live was founded by the late and
great Igor Flach. Klingenthal is a must for any harp player. I am also
currently working on a project with Seydel Harmonicas that should prove to be
interesting.

You can now go to my pics and see the Microphone I have invented and is being sold by Seydel Söhne Harmonicas. I make each one by hand and every one is unique. The sound is very nice to say the least. You can also visit www.Seydel187.de and get a good view of it as well.

Interests

Family
Building All Sorts Of Stuff
Harp
Fishing
Foreign Films
Reading
Meeting People
Music
Cooking
Eating
Culture Nut
Internet
Harp
Harp
Harp
Harp
I am interested in meeting you!!!