Recently Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, died of a disease many people probably never heard of — chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
Nimoy was one of more than 11 million Americans suffering from the chronic lung disease. There is no cure for COPD, but some patients at a Colorado clinic have found that a certain type of music – such as playing the harmonica – is good medicine.
The songs are familiar and the musicians focused. Every note is deliberate and every breath is key. They are the Harmonicats, and in their group, making music doesn’t come easy.