mouth-organs

He wandered thus one May night into Regent Street and the most amazing crowd he had ever seen; a shrieking, whistling, dancing, jostling, grotesque and formidably jovial crowd, with false noses and mouth-organs, penny whistles and long feathers, every appanage of idiocy, as it seemed to him.

In Chancery 2004

They went over the house and stores, the ware house and sheds, inspected the miserable remains of the stock, consisting of a few mouth-organs, watch — chains, boxes of coloured papers, lamps with hanging ornaments, all utterly unsaleable to sensible folks that lived on their land.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

Mammerroo saw visions of mouth-organs, one of which was sure to contain the coveted tune.

Tropic Days 2003

So they played music for them on their mouth-organs instead.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

Out of his scanty earnings he bought mouth-organs by the dozen, for he believed that owing to some defect on the part of such instruments the tune was impossible save to one.

Tropic Days 2003

So today, in the spicy heat of their bog, we sat round on logs and whistled, peeled sticks, played mouth-organs, dammed up the stream, and cut harbours in the cool clay banks.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

Then there was a glorious spinning of tops, and playing of mouth-organs, and blowing of trumpets, throughout the morning.

Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

The entire Liberal Party cheered the statement for twenty minutes, and then continued the demonstration with mouth-organs and megaphones for close upon an hour and a-half.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 Various

The two main planks of his platform are the legalising of the Schenectady putter for all golf meetings, and of megaphones and mouth-organs in the House of Commons.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 Various

Did they play on anything else besides mouth-organs in those days?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917 Various