Jew's-harp

He led the audience in singing "Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep" and "It Takes a Worried Man," with someone whose name I didn't catch performing perhaps the first and last Jew's-harp solo to be heard in the Garden.

Daniel Menaker: For Pete's Sake 2009

As pleasant a singer, Mr. Chuzzlewit, as ever you heerd, with a voice like a Jew's-harp in the bass notes.

Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

Jew's-harp; and if the ants bit them, why they just got up and went to the next anthill, till they were bitten there likewise.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

And on the title-page was written, "The History of the great and famous nation of the Doasyoulikes, who came away from the country of Hardwork, because they wanted to play on the Jew's-harp all day long."

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Madame Adelaide, in particular, had a most insatiable desire to learn; she was taught to play upon all instruments, from the horn (will it be believed!) to the Jew's-harp.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

With the exception of the gong and the Jew's-harp, all of these instruments can be made to produce varied and pleasing rhythms or music, according to the knowledge and skill of the performer.

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

Taking his stand upon a moss-covered fragment of rock, he drew an enormous Jew's-harp from his pocket, and handed it to me, gravely requesting me to ` accompany 'him upon it, while he sang.

The Island Home Richard Archer

And the remarkable thing about the band is that it is doubtful if any member had ever, before going to St. Dunstan's, played a more elaborate instrument than a Jew's-harp or a mouth organ.

Through St. Dunstan's to Light James H. Rawlinson

As pleasant a singer, Mr. Chuzzlewit, as ever you heerd, with a voice like a Jew's-harp in the bass notes.

Charles Dickens and Music Lightwood, James T 1912

On his knee, in transports of delight, was a small boy, and Mr. Lincoln was serenely playing on the child's Jew's-harp.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909