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Significados de mouth bow en inglés

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harpa de boca
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A small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity.

        harpa de boca
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        Examples for "jew's harp"
        Examples for "jew's harp"
        1
        On way back he plays bamboo jew's harp and it summons his brothers to come and see him.
        A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore
        2
        Hungry suggested giving it something to eat, while Ikey wanted to play on his infernal jew's harp, claiming it was a musical dog.
        Defenders of Democracy / Contributions from representative men a...
        3
        I do not pretend that my own instrument is an organ: but shrillest Jew's harp.
        Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C...
        4
        The result is not cheerful, and to the civilised ear the strains of a Jew's harp are preferable.
        Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories
        5
        The fact is, the noble mountaineers of these districts have had to fall back on the Jew's harp.
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
        1
        Talk away like a little jews' harp.
        Wanderers
        2
        Turkey took out his Jews' harp, and discoursed soothing if not eloquent strains.
        Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
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