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I have a favourite spot nearby where I have busked a few times. It's in the subway leading to the beach, and the acoustics are incredible and do me all sorts of favours.

A couple of times ago, a dude came along and said "Ah, the Eb tunnel!" I nodded, but when I thought about it, I do have a strong preference for songs in Eb so he was absolutely right!

That story always reminds me to try and play in keys I tend to avoid, but there's never enough time to practice everything! It should be Gb...

It's awful lonely playing solo chromatic harmonic, so I do use backing tracks. I started with Band In a Box, but switched to iReal when I got one of those fancy tablet things.

It's great because I can take it out busking with me with a couple of thousand chord charts preloaded, but I'll invest in some less robotic backing tracks played by real musicians soon.

Incidentally, I love jamming with other Jellytainers, so if I'm a fan of yours, there's a good chance we've played together.

I've lost count of the times I have died on stage, especially at jams, but there was one time in particular. I was doing a little gig, with some friends I used to jam with, at a community centre. Let's just call it a wardrobe malfunction and leave it at that! XD *rofl

Oh and my best startstruck story is that I was at a local jazz festival helping out on a stall for the jazz school I studied with, and I was handing out flyers for jazz courses. This black dude comes up to me, and, thinking he had to be a safe bet began to ask him if he was interested in studying jazz.

He said, "No, but I'm COURTNEY PINE, and I'm gonna be in touch with you guys!" He sauntered off to the stall next door which was selling jazz CDs and my tutor came up to me and said, "Do you know who that was!?" I just said, "Errrm, I'm beginning to!!!"

I actually did have a harmonica when I was just a kid, but it was one of those made in China things that are really hard to get a good sound out of. Eventually it mysteriously vanished. I guess my parents must have hid it!

I also had a toy guitar, but like the harmonica it wasn't great and probably put me off. I still have trouble with guitar because I often have to find alternative chord fingering for my oddly shaped stubby little fingers.

Luckily you don't need much precise fingerwork to play chromatic harmonica.

I belong to a ukulele group just for fun. We meet at a steampunk-themed bar and play out the back. One time I was told I had to give my uke a name, so that night I thought wouldn't it be great if I dreamt of a name, like the way shamans dreamt the name of their drum.

When I woke up I remembered that I had had a dream where someone came up to me and simply said, "The name of your ukulele is Nicky". So I now have a golden sticker on my uke that reads "Nicky".