Jew's harp
Noun
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Noun
Jew's harp
- A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.
- French: guimbarde, campurgne
- German: Maultrommel, Mundtrommel, Maulgeige, Brummeisen, Judenharfe
- Italian: scacciapensieri
- Portuguese: harpa de boca
- Russian: варга́н
- Spanish: arpa de boca, guimbarda, birimbao, arpa de boca, torompe (Argentina)
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