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#11010 by Gorfalamu
Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:22 am
Harmonica Taps at 10

Dear Friends of the Harmonica,

The members of the Bushman Harmonica Forum have recently begun a national movement to encourage and invite all harmonica players to play Taps at 10 p.m. every night. Though we have a national membership, we cannot do it alone. It is our hope that harmonica players and organizations across the country and around the world will take up the call and join us every night at ten o'clock for the brief span of 24 notes to play Taps at Ten.

This is in no way a political statement about the war. We just want those who serve and have served, those families struggling to survive another day, those who have sacrificed only to feel as though no one gives a damn, that someone, somewhere, is standing watch with them every night at 10 in every time zone in the country.

Someone, somewhere, will hear it. That someone may be a soldier's wife nearing the end of her rope. It may be a Stryker company in Baghdad, wondering if anybody gives a damn anymore. It may be someone who just needs twenty-four notes of peace when we can set aside our differences and become, for just a brief moment, one nation.

This year's annual Bean Blossom Blues Festival in Indiana will play Taps at 10 on Friday, Sept. 7th. Imagine that happening at every blues festival in the country! It can happen if we all help by just doing it and passing the word to others.

We hope that you will help by spreading the word and encouraging all harmonica players to join us in this simple act of compassion and remembrance. .Together we can make a difference, if only for a moment, if only for twenty-four notes of grace.

Please lend your voice, play Taps at 10, each evening, home alone or with a friend or in the diner or outside the door or, most especially, when you have an audience.

Tonight is a good time to start.

Thank you on behalf of the members of the Bushman Harmonica Forum, and musicians everywhere.

Gorfalamu
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