page_title: John Popper
section_title: Equipment
hierarchical_section_title: John Popper / Equipment
caption_attribution_description: John Popper - Blues Traveler. At New Orleans Jazz Fest.
context_page_description: John Popper is an American musician and songwriter. He is most famous for his role as frontman of rock band Blues Traveler performing harmonica, guitar, and vocals.
context_section_description: John Popper has expressed a preference for the Hohner Special 20 brand blues harp, calling them "the Porsche of harmonicas." Since 2015 he uses mainly his own signature harmonicas manufactured by Fender.
  Popper uses Shure microphones and Mesa Boogie amplifiers. He also uses D'Addario strings.
caption: Popper's trademark hat and custom modified harmonica microphone
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