Jew's harp
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jew-s-harp-228-3196929
title:
Jew's harp
text:
The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame. Despite the colloquial name, the Jaw's harp originated in Siberia, specifically in or around the Altai Mountains, and is of Mongolian and Turkic origin. It has no relation to the Jewish people. Jew's harps may be categorized as idioglot or heteroglot; by the shape of the frame; by the number of tines, and whether the tines a
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Lamellophone instrument
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew%27s_harp
date created:
2003-11-25T14:08:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T06:19:02Z
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