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Meanings of harmonica in English

Russian
губная гармошка
Portuguese
harmónica
Catalan
harmònica
Spanish
armonica
Wikidata

A free reed musical wind instrument which produces notes according to the player's mouth placement over the different airways.

        губная гармошка
        Wikidata

        A musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction.

              Usage of harmonica in English
              1
              But the harmonica actually has a long, rich and extremely interesting history.
              Radio NZ
              2
              But he treated the audience to plenty of his trademark wheezing harmonica.
              Reuters
              3
              Like I could play a harmonica first time I picked one up.
              In Cold Blood
              4
              Fucking pick up a harmonica and blow the shit out of it.
              The Guardian
              5
              Four months later I got this email with the title 'Stevie harmonica recording'.
              News.com.au
              6
              The tones of the harmonica had just stopped and the boy had gone.
              Erick and Sally
              7
              He also gets a second appearance 40 seconds later, playing harmonica.
              The Guardian
              8
              Or you could do the thing where you don't actually have the harmonica.
              The new yorker
              9
              He has been playing the harmonica for patients for two years.
              The new yorker
              10
              It was a discordant, insistent screeching of the harmonica that finally awakened them.
              Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers
              11
              Aside from the drums, Smith also played the harmonica and sang.
              Reuters
              12
              There was music coming from the living room-slowclapping, a harmonica, a guitar.
              Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
              13
              Somebody else whipped out a harmonica, and the fiddlers had competition.
              Boy’s Life
              14
              Argentinian harmonica player Hugo Diaz was famous for his tango interpretations.
              Radio NZ
              15
              Accordion, harmonica, wine, shout, dance, wail, roundabout, dash of pan, laughter.
              The Martian Chronicles
              16
              His dad played piano and harmonica, busked and entertained in the music halls.
              The Guardian
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              Catalan
              harmònica
              Harmonica through the time
              Harmonica across language varieties
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