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	harp - definition by dict.die.net
		To harp on one string, to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence.
		To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
		The church in heaven is represented as celebrating the triumphs of the Redeemer "harping with their harps" (Rev. 14:2).
	dict.die.net /harp (258 words)

	Jew's Trump
		Or, a yew tree eradicated, on a chief vert a mouth harp fesswise Or.
		My specific concern is with the term “mouth harp.” When I submitted this badge at the Kingdom level, I blazoned it as “Jew’s trump.” I did this because trump is a more medieval, and especially a more Scottish term for the instrument.
		“Mouth harp” neither is consistent with the prior registrations nor does it represent a particularly medieval term.
	albanach.org /trump.html (1803 words)

	#3 Mouthing Off
		The Jew's harp is probably the world's best known mouth cavity instrument, especially considering the variations and diverse cultures in which it appears.
		The Jew's harp is almost certainly pre-dated by the mouth bow and didjeridu.
		Instruments in the mouth cavity family emphasize the harmonics individually, thus the tones are pure, but with the drone (lowest tone and all harmonics) sounding under the desired pitch.
	www.jewsharpguild.org /whmo3.html (1132 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I was classically trained on both lever and pedal harp by Frances G. Miller in Minneapolis....one of the best in the Midwest, and though it took a lot of practicing and committment, it was all worth it.
		Carvings and paintings of harps and harp players have survived next to heiroglyphs on ancient Egyptian ruins, which tells us that the harp has been around a very long time, and is one of the oldest instruments.
		But some even think harps began much earlier, at the dawn of civilization, in Sumeria which is the area of the world that is now known as Iraq.
	www.haveharpwilltravel.net /faq.html (876 words)

	Jew's harp music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Along with kora, Solo Cissokho's 21-stringed harp, Berg and her cohorts have created a sound of stunning grace and authenticity, performing traditional European melodies, West African lullabies, and a handful of folk tunes that are a mellifluous conjoining of elements rather than the overwrought fusion one might expect.
		But the secret ingredient here is the presence of dual mouth harps, each providing rich texture, ambient drone, and mystical vibrations, each note a bread crumb on the path toward home.
		the mouth harp brings a vibrational stage which is beautifully adorned by singing voices, high and low.this music is pure delight.
	spiritdimension.com /magical-music/jewsharpmusic.htm (993 words)

	Mouth harp - MHN Instrument Encyclopedia
		The Jew's harp, jaw harp or mouth harp is thought to be one of the oldest musical instruments in the world; a musician apparently playing it can be seen in
		The mouth harp is considerd a toothless hillbilliy instrument, The mouth harp is diffrent than the harmonica.
		Mouth harp was also known as a jews harp.
	infrastructure.yournetpath.com /?q=infrastructure-mouth-harp (270 words)

	The Search for the Origins of the Jew’s Harp
		This article explains what a Jew’s harp is and its global appeal; briefly explains what we know about the English language name; looks at the archaeological evidence; considers the relationship between instruments in Asia and Europe, and, finally, their likely transfer east to west.
		though the Jew’s harp itself has no musical quality other than the fundamental note that the reed produces as it passes between the frame, other notes can be produced by a player by altering the shape of his mouth, mainly by using his own tongue to make the ‘sound-box’ larger or smaller.
		The Jew’s harp is an international instrument that is likely to have originated in Asia and travelled to Europe, arriving sometime around the 13th century.
	www.silkroadfoundation.org /newsletter/vol2num2/Harp.htm (2861 words)

	The Diatonic Harmonica Reference
		Cupping the harp with the hands, and opening/closing the hands and fingers is a common and traditional way to achieve very characteristic harmonica specific sounds.
		The normal range of harps from low to high (such as when harps are offered in a set) is G at the low end to F# on the high end, but doubled keys add high G and low harps from D (or even low C).
		However, when playing in 2nd position, the C harp is played in the key of G, which is not the simplest key in which to visualize music.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/myquill/Harmonica.html (15395 words)

	Why is it called a harp? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The term is partly inspired by the Aeolian harp, a stringed instrument that is left outdoors to be played by the wind, whose name was taken from Aeolus, the god of the wind.
		From the close resemblance of its tones to those of this harp of the winds and from the analogous circumstances under which the sound is produced in both instances, the name of the Aeolina has been derived.
		This term was most popular in the South, with the term mouth harp being preferred in the "Midland" area (Indiana, Ohio and Illinois) and mouth organ in the Northern tier and Canada, with French speaking Canada often using the term musique a bouche.
	www.patmissin.com /ffaq/q3.html (437 words)

	VietNamNet Bridge
		He started with mouth harps in 1965 and in 1970 he recorded several pieces a British mouth harp artist.
		The mouth harp is an ancient instrument and the oldest known relic is from the second century, preserved in France.
		In some countries there are whole orchestras solely of mouth harps, sometimes consisting of 25 players.
	english.vietnamnet.vn /lifestyle/2006/06/585239 (473 words)

	Harp On! Playing Chromatic Harmonicas
		In either tongue block, if you find you are straining to pull your jaw or mouth away from your tongue, then stop straining, instead practise pushing your tongue to the correct spot, and get it used to sitting in the correct position.
		Being able to switch from one side of the mouth to the other quickly allows for quicker note changes that are a distance apart, and is essential for quick corner switching and playing couter point.
		Relaxing your tongue keeping it where it is, and shift your mouth to the opposite side by a hole letting yourself fall into the opposite tongue block position.
	www.angelfire.com /music/HarpOn/playing.html (6858 words)

	Television Point \| Dictionary \| Meaning of harp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		{Harp shell} (Zo["o]l.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus {Harpa}, of several species, found in tropical seas.
		Seeing or playing a harp in your dream, represents spiritual harmony.
		aeolian harp, cithara, clarsach, dulcimer, French harp, harmonica, harmonicon, heptachord, hexachord, Irish harp, kazoo, langspiel, lyre, mouth bow, mouth harp, mouth organ, polychord, symphonia, zither
	www.televisionpoint.com /dictionary/default.asp?define=harp (407 words)

	Blues Harp Blues Harmonica
		Bushmann was a 16 year old clockmaker in Germany who lashed together 15 separate pitch pipes and called it a "mund-eaoline" which means "mouth harp." The idea was pinched by another clockmaker, Christian Messner.
		The harp loved by classic blues players, the Marine Band, came along in 1896 and could be yours for a mere fifty cents.
		The move into blues for the harp happened over a period of time and there are various theories and "firsts" to contend with.
	www.bigroadblues.com /harp (508 words)

	The Jew's Harp
		Bow-shaped Jew’s harps are plucked with a finger of either hand, but usually with the forefinger of the opposite hand that is holding the instrument, whereas with lamellate types, the plucking action is reserved for either the extension of the tongue or the end of the frame.
		In Romania, Jew’s harps may even be fitted with tuning slides, while in other parts of the globe, a common method of altering the fundamental tone of the instrument is placing small balls of sealing wax or shellac on the tip of the tongue.
		Jew’s harps were introduced to the European recital room circa 1750, and by Johann Heinrich Hörmann in his compositional setting of Partita in C, where the instrument is accompanied by two recorders, four violins (two muted and the other two playing pizzicato) and continuo.
	www.users.bigpond.com /apertout/Jew'sHarp.htm (3280 words)

	How to Get Started on the Jaw Harp - eHow.com
		The trick to playing a jaw harp - also known as a Jew's harp, mouth harp, trump, kubing, drymba, varhan and gewgaw - is control.
		The shape of your mouth and the location of your tongue affect the way the vibrations resonate.
		Instead, the harp frame is held firmly against your slightly parted front teeth.
	www.ehow.com /how_17248_started-jaw-harp.html (575 words)

	Mouth Harp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jack tossed his Mouth Harp to the audience (and a lucky sole) at the conclusion of Rollin and Tumblin, which was certainly good.
		Small percussions, whistles, mouth harp, are other tiny sound elements completing a delicate music, impregnated with a subtle sense of humour, which Mil Pesetas complete with a slightly surreal...
		Police and Thieves" is the highlight, and also of interest is some wild mouth harp blowing, I presume by Mick as Joe is singing and it is in guitar-light passages, on "Jimmy Jazz" and "White Man...
	www.magnoliasmusic.com /mouthharp (912 words)

	Wordwizard Clubhouse - harpoon and harmonica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The expression MOUTH ORGAN first appeared in print as referring to a harmonica in 1866 and this expression is still popular today, although it is considered colloquial.
		Hohner was technically adept as well as being a good businessman, and by 1862 was exporting mouth organs to North America, and by 1867 was producing 22,000 mouth organs a year, which would become a million a year 20 years later.
		They included ‘harp,’ ‘mouth harp,’ ‘mouth organ,’ and ‘French harp’ — but no ‘harpoon.’ I emailed Joan Houston Hall, editor of DARE, to see if she might have something tucked away in her files on this one.
	www.wordwizard.com /ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18389 (3340 words)

	Harmonica and Blues Harp Page by Glenn Weiser
		Glenn Weiser is the author of three harmonica books, a writer about harmonica for the folk music journal Sing Out!, and former editor of the harmonica section of Netscape's Open Directory.
		Here is basic information about the harmonica, transcriptions of famous blues harp solos, arrangements of fiddle tunes, and information on Glenn's blues and Celtic books and lessons.
		There are also discographies of blues and Celtic harmonica recordings, and the some of the coolest harmonica links on the Net.
	www.celticguitarmusic.com /harppage.htm (216 words)

	Mouth harp - mouth harp - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
		Half-cut bamboo tongues in jew’s harps (mouth harps) are plucked.
		The mouth harp (or jew’s harp; jaw’s harp) is a common courting instrument among
		Mouth harp note, boing, wav file, sound effect, sound file, sound effect file, sound properties.
	yourquests.com /yrqs/mouth-harp.htm (445 words)

	Jew's harp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is also sometimes called a jew's trump or juice harp, among other names, and has no particular connection with Judaism.
		The frame is held against the performer's teeth or lips, using the jaw (thus "jaw harp") and mouth as a resonator, greatly increasing the volume of the instrument.
		Around 1765, Beethoven's teacher Johann Georg Albrechtsberger composed at least seven concertos for Jew's harp, mandora, and strings (three survive in a library in Budapest).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jew's_harp (1218 words)

	Blues Harp - MettaWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Even more so than the Guitar, the harmonica, or harp, is the quintessential Blues instrument.
		Until then, the only place to hear me play the Harp is in Hood River, or just a bit on our Wedding Album.
		All clips seem to be using a C harp, but should be usable in any key.
	oregonstate.edu /~penningj/w/index.php/Blues_Harp (573 words)

	Harmonica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The main difference is the electric amplification of the instrument: first the guitar and then the harp, double bass, vocals, etc. The original Sonny Boy Williamson is one of the most important harmonicist of this era.
		Howling Wolf is often overlooked as a harp player, but his early recordings demonstrate great skill, particularly at blowing powerful riffs with the instrument.
		Wells was the most economical of the harp masters, clearly a student of Sonny Boy Williamson II, and used the harp to create an atmosphere of tension and release.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Harmonica (5117 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The European version is a small harp-shaped frame held between the teeth, with a projecting prong plucked to produce a twanging sound.
		Since the late 16th century, its English name was Jew's harp, but through the 19th century it was also called Jew's trump because it has a natural scale like that of a trumpet.
		Gordon Frazier, board member of the "Jew's Harp Guild" has said: "The way to combat the perception of the name 'Jew's harp' as a slur is not to try to change the language, but to improve the image of the instrument.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=20001219 (346 words)

	GUIMBARDES
		Many people consider Jew's harp to be a culturally insensitive term, although one could argue that it shouldn't really be considered any more insulting than using the phrase term French harp to describe the harmonica.
		It is often said that Jew's harp is a corruption of jaw harp, but the former is by far the older term and is possibly derived from the French words jeu (a game) or jouer (to play).
		In China, where the instrument is known generically as kouqin, kouhuang or kouxian (meaning "mouth harp", "mouth reed", or "mouth string" respectively), they are often played in sets of three or four.
	www.patmissin.com /history/guimbardes.html (713 words)

	The Asian Free Reed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Instruments of this type are based on the principle of a free vibrating reed, unlike the single beating reed of the clarinet or saxophone, and likewise unlike the double reed instruments like the Western oboe, or the Indian shahnai and Chinese sona.
		The Chinese written character for the mouth harp, jaw's harp or guimbarde is the same character for tongue and the character used to describe the actual reed used in the Chinese mouth organ, sheng, known in Japan as sho.
		A European travellers in the 18th Century appear to have brought a mouth organ to the West and thereby gave rise to the development of European instruments following this principle.
	aris.ss.uci.edu /rgarfias/courses/asian/freereed.html (308 words)

	7-2005 Online Jew's Harp Guild Newsletter
		Velma and her husband, Tom, were very instrumental in keeping the Jew’s Harp alive in America.
		Bottom row: the Art Deco-ish “Dusie Harp” from the USA (36.50); Jew’s harp and other instruments from Papua New Guinea (46.66); original “Jew’s Harp Bill” sheet music (36.00); and a rare antique Norwegian munnharpe with carrying case (1,035.00).
		The Whitlow Jaw Harp, available in many music stores, is a good choice; the inexpensive Austrian ones made by Schwarz or Wimmer are also fine for beginners.
	www.jewsharpguild.org /jhgnews28.html (2972 words)

	Big Walter Horton-A Biographical Note by Glenn Weiser
		This is the bio note on Big Walter from my harmonica transcription/instruction book Masters of the Blues Harp, which has a transcription of his Now Tell Me Baby (Mouth Harp Maestro - Flair Records/Virgin Records Amer.
		He is also considered by many to have had the best tone of any Chicago harp player.
		Shortly thereafter his mother moved to Memphis, then a hotbed of blues, and according to blues researcher Samuel Charters, Horton was playing with the Memphis Jug Band by the time he was nine or ten.
	www.celticguitarmusic.com /harmbw.htm (461 words)

	"Mouth Harp" - Shopping.com
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		A new lamp finial is the perfect way to complete your new or favorite lamp.All finials have a standard 1/4-27 thread--which will fit the harp on almos...
	www.shopping.com /xGS-Mouth_Harp (398 words)

	mouth harp rave \| j-san.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I just happened to be walking through Center House at Seattle Center last Saturday (showing my visiting mom the space needle and stuff) during the Vietnamese New Year celebration event thing.
		There was a guy on stage performing on his mouth harp.
		Put me in a basket and float me across the Styx if an entire (twangy) techno song didn't come out of that man's mouth.
	www.j-san.net /node/289 (85 words)

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