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Hurdy Gurdy Man

 
 
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Hurdy Gurdy Man -- A Midwestern Memoir by Tono Rondone

Dror Alexander lived a vagabond life.  San Francisco, New York, New Orleans, Phoenix -- he inhabited all these cities, working as a musician, a painter, a writer, a waiter, a cab driver and a marketing executive.  Then, after a twenty year absence, he returns to his hometown broke and alone, and moves in with his aging mother and second father of thirty five years.  How will such a man adjust to living in the small Wisconsin town of his birth and his apparent defeat?  


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Listen to Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan!
Click here for a larger image of Tono's dad, Tony Rondone.
Click below to read the first chapter of Hurdy Gurdy Man!
Document
The first chapter of Hurdy Gurdy Man
'Dueling Clergy' by Val (as seen in Alfred Hitchcock's Magazine). Watercolor on paper, 10" x 12", 1957.
Tono inside The Horseshoe Cafe in San Francisco, 1998.
 

Click on the pix at left to see Papa Rondone and his new grandson Robert Anthony Matas, born July 22, 2004!


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Check out an Edgar Allen Poe poem set to music by Tono by clicking here! From White Bred Off Ramp . . . Get it today!
Sophia Rondone in Racine, Wisconsin, September 2005 (six months old)
"Wisconsin Marsh" by Tono Rondone, Acrylic on burlap, 36" x 24", 1971.

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Harmonica Key Change Table

Harmonica 1st Position 2nd Position 3rd Position

Straight Harp

Commonly used for simple melodies and a folk-rock style. Your basic starting and/or ending place would be hole 4 blow.

Cross Harp.

The most common position for blues, country, and rock. Your basic starting and/or ending place (point of resolution) would be hole 2 draw.

Third position

Great for songs in minor keys and minor blues. Your basic starting and/or ending place (point of resolution) would be hole 4 draw.

If the song is in the you could play a harmonica in second position, or you could play a harmonica in third position.

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