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Meanings of mouth organs in English

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

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губной орган
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Examples for "mouth organ"
Examples for "mouth organ"
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Subsequent composers have tended to reach for accordion, mouth organ or zither.
The Guardian
2
Some one further down the trench was playing a mouth organ.
The Hosts of the Air
3
Lulu plays Strauss's Sinfonia Domestica on the mouth organ really screamingly.
The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta
4
But the machine only spoke to him, in a voice like a mouth organ.
Archer’s Goon
5
A twitch in the jaw of the mouth organ man.
A singular man
Usage of mouth organs in English
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The boys in the top bunks played mouth organs, and I danced to entertain them.
The Guardian
2
The officers see to it that the mouth organs get tuned up the minute a hike begins.
A Yankee in the Trenches
3
Mandibles, the mouth organs of insects.
The New McGuffey Fourth Reader
4
A ripple of mirth swept along our trench, followed by a rude outburst of mouth organs and laughter.
Bullets & Billets
5
He is 25 and has been blowing mouth organs since he was 7.
The new yorker
6
They may be agreeable and not object to mouth organs and whistling and occasional stone-throwing, or they may not.
More William
7
In 'Kitchener' Ward the men have mouth organs and tin whistles and combs, and play till you're nearly deafened.
A Patriotic Schoolgirl
8
Sounds of mouth organs and concertinas and a wheezing gramaphone came from the Valley where the Senator's cow-boys camped with drovers come up from Arizona.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
9
Mouth organs made from gourds.
Anil's ghost
10
"They're up in the play-room;-twodrums, two mouth organs and a fife, and a trumpet."
Christmas with Grandma Elsie
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