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.
A musical instrument that consists of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.
1 On way back he plays bamboo jew 's harp and it summons his brothers to come and see him.
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.
3 I do not pretend that my own instrument is an organ: but shrillest Jew 's harp .
4 The result is not cheerful, and to the civilised ear the strains of a Jew 's harp are preferable.
5 The fact is, the noble mountaineers of these districts have had to fall back on the Jew 's harp .
6 In tenderer years indeed I had made essay upon the Jew 's harp , but had relinquished it without a sigh.
7 Play always on the Jew 's harp , and no one will accuse you of imitating the tone of any other instrument.
8 The memoirs of Madame de Genlis first made known the astonishing powers of a poor German soldier on the Jew 's harp .
9 "And you bought me a Jew 's harp on my birthday-
10 "Well, I used ter play a Jew 's harp a leetle."
11 He could sing comic songs, imitate hackney coachmen and fowls, play airs on his chin, and execute concertos on the Jew 's harp .
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