Savare salonee aaye din bahar ke: 16th song

Dr. Naresh Khandwala and Manohar Vaidya.

15th song : Aaj kal tere mere pyar ke charche

Paresh Bhatia also known as Yuvaraj sinh of Harmonica Club of Gujarat, can hit sixers with any harmonica. He is playing the SWAN 12 hole professional harmonica. Recently he imported a few harmonicas of the same make for the beginners.

14th song of Kankaria Carnival

Tum Na Jaane by Sandip Patankar and Manohar Vaidya.

13th Song : kankaria karnival

Bansi Gujjar and Manohar Vaidya : Chhod do aanchal zamana kya kahega....
Who cares !!!

Jana tha Japan, Pahunch gaye Cheen, Samajhgaye na

Harmonica maestro He Jiayi was in India to perform in Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Bangalore and Cochin. While in Delhi, he performed at the Chinese embassy. Abe Thomas, who runs the Harmonica India Yahoo group, introduced Jiayi to Ashok Bhandari, the magician turned mouth organ player. The Chinese Ambassador grabbed the opportunity to hold their joint performance. The following letter reflects the spirit:

Dear Mr. Bhandari,

Attached are a few pictures taken at the April 2 gathering at the Cultural Office of the Chinese Embassy.

The performances by Mr. He Jiayi and yourself were highly appreciated and enjoyed by the audience including H.E. Ambassador Zhang Yan and other members of the Embassy. I wish to thank you again for your participation and look forward to more contact and interactions with you and indeed with muscial circles of India in the future for the further enhancement of cultural exchange and cooperation between our two countries.

with high regard,
Xie Fei

Cultural Counsellor

Embassy of the People's Republic of China

Guru Draun from Delhi Shishya Eklavya from Ahmedabad : E learning !!!!

Ashokji, there are students who follow your playing. I am one of them. This is an effort to learn and reproduce. Do guide me.

12th song of Kankaria Carnival : Jane kaha gaya

Rohini Jhala and Manohar Vaidya.

Milon Gupta: The Maestro

I was pleasantly surprised when I received an email from harmonica player Vinayak from Hyderabad this morning. He had sent me a few photographs of legendary mouth organ player Milon Gupta along with scanned copies of notations of a few film songs written by the maestro himself in his own hand writing. Thanks Vinayak for sharing such a treasure with all the harmonica lovers.

Vinayak has also uploaded some of the classic numbers played by Milon Gupta on his esnips page.

E Malik Tere Bande Hum

Recently we were invited by Shri T. D . Joshi. Sanjay Agarwal wanted to meet all the Harmonica friends in Vadodara. We were treated with special dinner by Joshi Family and this lovely song by Apoorva Bhatt and Dilipsinh Chawan.
E malik tere bande hum.......

Magic of Mouth Organ

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He popped up one day on my chat window saying, "Kyon Raja Mujhe Pehchaana?". I could hardly believe that Ashok Bhandari, my classmate in Banaras Hindu University, would find me after almost 30 years. Since we left the university in 1978, Ashok had become a professional magician, performing all over the world - Italy, Germany, Japan and Russia.

Ashok found me from my esnips page where I had uploaded some of my mouth organ numbers. He told me that he has been also playing mouth organ in all his magic shows. I had heard Ashok play mouth organ when we were in college. But, he was not a great player then. After almost 30 years of practice and performing on stage, Ashok had become a maestro - a wizard, a magician of music. He is a master of special effects - a one-man orchestra.

Ashok was so much inspired by the Harmonica Club of Gujarat and its blog that he decided to devote full time on playing harmonica. I was shocked when one day he told me that he is giving up performing magic shows and has decided to start a mouth organ training academy in Delhi.

"Mouth Organ is a magical instrument," he says. Ashok has turned this handy musical instrument into a wonderful object of performing art.

Harmonica enthusiasts can call him at 9999333104.

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