Usage of "mouth organ"

Portuguese

Catalan

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

Russian

Instrument family; any free reed aerophone with one or more air chambers fitted with a free reed.

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Examples for "mouth organs"

Examples for "mouth organs"

The boys in the top bunks played mouth organs, and I danced to entertain them. 
 The Guardian 

The officers see to it that the mouth organs get tuned up the minute a hike begins. 
 A Yankee in the Trenches 

Mandibles, the mouth organs of insects. 
 The New McGuffey Fourth Reader 

A ripple of mirth swept along our trench, followed by a rude outburst of mouth organs and laughter. 
 Bullets & Billets 

He is 25 and has been blowing mouth organs since he was 7. 
 The new yorker 

Usage of mouth organ in English

Subsequent composers have tended to reach for accordion, mouth organ or zither. 
 The Guardian 

Some one further down the trench was playing a mouth organ. 
 The Hosts of the Air 

Lulu plays Strauss's Sinfonia Domestica on the mouth organ really screamingly. 
 The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta 

But the machine only spoke to him, in a voice like a mouth organ. 
 Archer’s Goon 

A twitch in the jaw of the mouth organ man. 
 A singular man 

It's saving up for a mouth organ because you want to play a tune. 
 The Guardian 

This collection of barrels he called his mouth organ. 
 Against the Grain 

A mouth organ is a man's best friend, Peekay. 
 The power of one 

A man was playing on the mouth organ. 
 Arizona Nights 

Miss Pringle's Jefferson had with him a harmonica, or mouth organ, which he at once produced. 
 The Cruise of the Jasper B. 

Beb is on the mouth organ accompanying him. 
 The Guardian 

He holstered the gun, pocketed the mouth organ, then took out and flicked on his flashlight. 
 Indivisible 

The mouth organ man parting his sour lips. 
 A singular man 

While he carried neither guitar, nor banjo, nor mouth organ, he was making quite a musical racket. 
 The new yorker 

Man standing, hanging one handed from a strap the other holding a mouth organ between his lips. 
 A singular man 

If you have a mouth organ in your pocket you'll never starve for company or a good meal. 
 The power of one 

Translations for mouth organ

Portuguese

Catalan

Russian

Meanings of mouth organ in English