mouth organ

Lennon also recalls a Christmas memory in which he reached into a stocking and found a present of a mouth organ.

"Improve guitar playing. Practice mouth organ. Do more dancing. Get ready for tour," he said, only partially tongue-in-cheek.

“Joan in bare feet and long hair, and Bob with his mouth organ stuck on his shoulder. Very early days.”

“Idoru” begins with bird calls and little hoots from what sounds like an Asian mouth organ, and expands into rippling Minimalistic patterns of overlapping instruments and vocals.

While we wait for that, starting this weekend there’s a chance to hear “Su,” a concerto for sheng, a Chinese mouth organ, which premiered in 2009; Wu Wei is the soloist.