LONDON (AP) _ Larry Adler, the virtuoso of the humble harmonica, has died at age 87, his manager said Tuesday. Adler died Monday night at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, said manager Jonathan Shalit.

The late Toots Thielemans was one of the first chromatic harmonica players to play swing and bop on the instrument. And no one could touch Toots or even sound like him. But he wasn't the first ...

Larry Adler, a harmonica virtuoso whose musical partners ranged from George Gershwin to Elton John to classical orchestras, died in London on Aug. 7 at 87. The son of two observant Russian immigrants, ...

This week CBS presents a radio play written around an instrument on which millions of small boys make the air horrible—a mouth organ. This harmonica is tootled with utmost purity by Larry Adler, at 27 ...

Linda Wertheimer has a note on the life and death of Larry Adler. The mouth organ virtuoso died yesterday in London at the age of 87. He became famous for playing classical music on the harmonica.