Saturday, February 12, 2005

Jew's Harp

Also called �Jaw's Harp, or Guimbarde, � musical instrument consisting of a thin wood or metal tongue fixed at one end to the base of a two-pronged frame. The player holds the frame to his mouth, which forms a resonance cavity, and plucks the instrument's tongue. The notes produced are limited to the fourth through tenth tones of the harmonic series (in relative pitch, c - e - g - b [approximately] - c� - d� - e�). The tongue produces

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