I have this little object with me at all times. This is a harmonica that my grandfather had; he died when I was four and my grandmother gave it to me, and she informed me that she had it for as long as she had known him which would be since the late 40s. [My grandfather] was a dairyman; he owned a dairy farm in Iowa, which is where I grew up, and he took a hiatus in the 1950s during the Korean War…and he took this with him and played it all the time during …[the Korean War]. So I carry this harmonica with me all the time and when I’m stuck in traffic I like to jam.

This belongs in The Museum of Hopelessly Out of Tune Instruments

Exhibited by Elissa

Transcript edited by Susan Golland