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The most erotic tracks, not surprisingly, are with the ever-flirtatious Dee Dee Bridgewater and showgirl Gina Gershon , who sounds sexy even while playing jew's harp.
Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville Will Friedwald 2011
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Every middle class home had a piano, every working class one a fiddle, or a jew's harp.
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Israelite was once, in the early days in America, a term of respect and an acknowledgement of the jew's biblical origins.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Very enthused about downloading a synthesized jew's harp...always wanted something that got the sound they used in The Band to record "Up on Cripple Creek," and I don't know what they used to make it, but it was a synth I would be happy with an ersatz one.
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I have been playing a kind of jew's harp for ages. and of course I am not crazy!
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Hungry suggested giving it something to eat, while Ikey wanted to play on his infernal jew's harp, claiming it was a musical dog.
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The Little Panjandrum, a little fat man in Oriental costume, was preceded by two attendants -- one playing a kind of drum, and the other a jew's harp, while a third attendant held an enormous umbrella over His
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He had, besides the things I have mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jew's harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spool-cannon, a key that wouldn't unlock anything, a fragment of chalk,
The Ontario Readers Third Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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The gentleman at the right, having been educated abroad, has never learned to play the ukelele, the banjo, the jew's harp or the saxophone, and is, with the best intentions in the world, attempting to contribute his share to the gaiety of the coming evenings by bringing along his player-piano.
Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises Donald Ogden Stewart 1937
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Souchez, when a jew's harp, playing ragtime was heard outside.
The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926
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