Sell me your Vintage Harmonica Microphones

I buy many brands and styles of microphones. All of the microphones I purchase are rebuilt into mics used by harmonica players. Harp players have traditionally used bullet-shaped mics, generally built by Shure Brothers and Astatic. Commonly called “Bullet Mics,” these are known primarily by their round, cue-ball size and metal construction. They look cool too.

Shure Brothers started manfacturing these elements in 1949, and the last one’s were produced in the late 1990’s. These elements produce the best sounding harp mics. For the shells, I find vintage Astatic JT-30, Astatic W-30, Astatic Brown Bullet, Shure 520 Green Bullet, Shure 540 Green Bullet, Shure 540DX, Electrovoice EV605, Electrovoice EV 630, Turner BX, Blues Blaster, and other vintage bullet microphones for my rebuilt harp mics. All of them are carefully brought back to life. Sometimes I leave the exterior alone, sometimes I sandblast and powder coat them, but there’s always the potential for imperfections. I try to note them whereever I can.

Hook any of these vintage harp mics to your favorite harp amp and you’ll have an entirely new tone. Coupled with a good harmonica amplifier, these custom harp mics will bring out subtle tonal qualities in your harmonica playing you just never knew you had.