which instruments did he play?
Harmonica, banjo, electric guitars, six-string bass guitars, piano, etc
John Lennon
harmonica
who were the beatles before they were the beatles Silver Beatles who formed this band? John Lennon
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John Lennon [SEP] Instruments played
Lennon played a mouth organ during a bus journey to visit his cousin in Scotland; the music caught the driver's ear. Impressed, the driver told Lennon of a harmonica he could have if he came to Edinburgh the following day, where one had been stored in the bus depot since a passenger had left it on a bus. The professional instrument quickly replaced Lennon's toy. He would continue to play the harmonica, often using the instrument during the Beatles' Hamburg years, and it became a signature sound in the group's early recordings. His mother taught him how to play the banjo, later buying him an acoustic guitar.