jews-harp

Actually, that jews-harp sound you hear on Up On Cripple Creek is neither a jews harp nor a synth.

Jew's Harp day Pt 3: Behold! The virtual JHarp 2005

He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through,

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

Anyway, the last time Marmaduke threw the knife through the air, and it made its last somersault and stuck up in the ground, straight as straight as could be and quivering like a jews-harp, the Toyman said, --

Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

No one could make minced pies, dance, play cards, or play on any instrument of music, except the drum, trumpet, and jews-harp.

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

If the workman's piano was a jews-harp and his Pullman car a spavined cayuse, his employer was not erecting palaces in which to stable his blood stock, nor purchasing dissolute princes for his daughters to play at marriage and divorce with.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

"Can the Prince play to me on a jews-harp?" she asked.

Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1918

"I will go only to a Prince who can play on a jews-harp."

Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1918

"The Prince need not play to me on a jews-harp if he does not want to," she said.

Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1918

"I won't learn to play on a jews-harp," said the little Prince when they told him about it.

Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1918

Carl and Faith were already on their way through the early moonlight to Rainbow Valley, having heard therefrom the elfin lilt of Jerry's jews-harp and having guessed that the Blythes were there and fun afoot.

Rainbow Valley 1908