We stumbled across this old rare footage from the World Harmonica Championship in Trossingen, Germany 1993 - It's in 3 parts on YouTube, which we've featured below:

The quality isn't great, but for being 20 years old, it's really cool see this at all. Here's what Howard had to say when we asked him about these:

"Wow, this stuff is pretty good. At 1:45 of the first part I play my tune "To Me You Are a Song" on an Ab harp. 

In the 2nd part I start with "Round Midnight" and then at 3:00 I go into a Blues in all 12 keys, staying on the Ab harp. At 7:40 I return to the bridge of "Round Midnight" ... pretty slick. I don't remember doing any of this...

In Part 3 I start with "Love For Sale" on an Eb harp. Then at the end I go into my Beethoven violin concerto cadenza on a G harp." 

World Harmonica Championship: Part 2

 

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