ou can’t go lugging around a piano," Ron remarked, "not when you led as ambulant and as traveled a life as me."
His solution, then, was the harmonica, or mouth organ as he generally referred to it.
From the late 1920s forward, he was rarely without one, and actually kept several, in varying keys, in a footlocker beneath his bed. His ability with the instrument was said to have been legendary, and Apollo musicians still speak of the day he performed an "absolutely smokin’ blues version of "O Susanna" on a three-note harmonica picked up at a penny arcade.
