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	mouth organ
		The compact harmonica, or European mouth organ, developed by Charles Wheatstone in 1829, has tuned metal free reeds of variable length contained in a narrow rectangular box and is played by blowing and sucking air while moving the instrument from side to side through the lips.
		As the mouth harp, the mouth organ is a staple instrument in country and Western music.
		All mouth organs bend in pitch in response to variation in pressure of the player's breath.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0009802.html (169 words)

	Harmonica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike most free-reed instruments (such as reed organs, accordions and melodicas), the mouth harmonica lacks a keyboard.
		The mouthpiece is an object which is placed between the air chambers of the instrument and the player's mouth.
		Indeed, the similarities between harmonicas and so-called "diatonic" accordions or melodeons is such that in German the name for the former is "Mundharmonika" and the later "Handharmonika", translated simply as "mouth harmonica" and "hand harmonica".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mouth_organ (5896 words)

	Teaching Resources from Whittaker's Musical Museum
		The red and blue mouth organ in front is a two-sided one which gives you a different key (or scale) each side.
		The common scale is played in the same way as a mouth organ, that is, blow, suck (push/pull), blow, suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.
		Organs can have hundreds of reeds that are activated by the foot pedals sucking air via the bellows into an equaliser bellow from where the air is dispersed to any bank of reeds where stops are open.
	www.musical-museum.org /teachersframe.htm (1106 words)

	The Classical Free-Reed, Inc.: Essay: A Mouthful of Music by Richard Martin
		Modern Eastern mouth organs are constructed with 17 different sized bamboo pipes arranged in a semi-circle, and inserted into a circular shaped wind chamber within a metal bowl.
		There was a primitive mouth organ in use among the Chingmiau tribes (non-Chinese people related to the Thai-speaking people of Haenan) near Anshuenn, Gueyjou Province, China (date unknown) This mouth organ resembled the Sheng, and it had 6 bamboo tubes of various sizes.
		Harmonica Historian, Brad Harris, says that although the mouth organ was present in the west by the middle of the eighteenth century, experimentation with the free-reed did not begin until a Sheng was sent to Paris by a Jesuit missionary in China, Father Amiot.
	www.ksanti.net /free-reed/essays/mouthful.html (3482 words)

	Mouth Organ Examples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Acoustics of the khaen: The Laotian free-reed mouth organ.
		The mouth organ, or sheng, became a mainstay in the music of the courts of...
		Basic Anatomy - Organs and Organ Systems - Some examples of epithelial tissue are the outer layer of the skin, the inside of...
	www.pianothings.com /mouth-organ-examples.html (821 words)

	EASTERN FREE REED INSTRUMENTS
		In some mouth organs certain fingerholes are sometimes stopped stopped with a piece of wax in order to provide a constant drone behind other notes selected by the player's fingers.
		Mouth organs could be further classified according to several more or less arbitrary schemes, such as the number of pipes, tuning system, reed materials, etc. I have chosen to group them together according to the way the pipes are arranged.
		Probably the most familiar type of Asian mouth organ to most people is the Chinese sheng, its most common form having 17 pipes of varying lengths forming an incomplete circle around a windchest of either carved wood or metal.
	www.patmissin.com /history/eastern.html (1660 words)

	Larry Adler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The harmonica, or as Adler insisted on calling it, the mouth organ, is surely among the least respected instruments.
		But for Adler the mouth organ was just what his grand name for it says it is: a complete musical experience in itself.
		Adler may not have established a good case for the inclusion of the mouth organ among the premiere instruments of the symphony orchestra.
	www.goodbyemag.com /jul01/adler.html (1280 words)

	Dr. Narasinha Kamath's Blog - Dr. Narasinha Kamath web blogs, Dr. Narasinha Kamath blogger in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Diatonic type mouth organ is roughly equivalent to the white keys of the harmonium, meaning it has only shudh swaras whereas the chromatic type mouth organ has a sliding key, which can be slid by pressing a button at the end.
		This chromatic type mouth organ is equivalent to having both white and fl keys of the harmonium.
		With this position of the mouth, bring say the 4th hole of the mouth organ and hold tight against your lips and and place your index fingers tightly over holes 3 and 5 and blow out of the 4th hole (exhale).
	www.sulekha.com /blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=2350 (2524 words)

	Mouth organ Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The compact harmonica, or European mouth organ, developed by Charles Wheatstone in 1829, has tuned metal free reeds...
		As the mouth harp, the mouth organ is a staple instrument in...
		A phone is a similar shape to a mouth organ, so it shouldn't be beyond modern science to integrate...
	www.1mouthsource.info /mouth-sores/mouth-organ.html (700 words)

	Halfbakery: Replace Buttons With Mouth Organ
		A phone is a similar shape to a mouth organ, so it shouldn't be beyond modern science to integrate a mouth organ's gubbins into a phone - an organ transplant if you will.
		A modified mouth organ would be perfect for producing DTMF tones.
		If we all used mouth organs to dial then numbers that sounded a little bit like "Danny Boy" or "White Christmas" would suddenly become the valuable and desirable numbers.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Replace_20Buttons_20With_20Mouth_20Organ (419 words)

	MSN Encarta - Dictionary - mouth
		food and voice organ: in people and animals, the opening in the head and its surrounding lips, gums, tongue, and teeth, through which food is taken in and through which sounds come out
		speech organ: the mouth regarded as the organ of speech
		She mouthed a warning to the girl opposite as the teacher entered the room.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861631538 (476 words)

	Mouth Organ Lesson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She gives Cherokee’s mouth organ to Leona, his sister.
		Mouth Organ -Harmonica/Bluesharp FAQ's: Harmonica Types - Learn to play harmonica/blues harp- FAQs section- Harmonica Types.
		the mouth The mouth is but one of the many sensory organs found in the...
	www.pianothings.com /mouth-organ-lesson.html (830 words)

	Mouth Organ Cartoons
		Mouth Organ cartoon 1 - catalog reference rjo0476
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	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/m/mouth_organ.asp (292 words)

	How To Play "Hard-Core" Harmonica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If it's true that Abraham Lincoln played the mouth organ, it's just as true that the "tin sandwich" he-and a host of homesick Civil War soldiersmouthed in the mid-1800's was almost identical to the harmonicas being manufactured both today and as early as the 1820's.
		The amount of sound coming out of a mouth organ, of course, is varied and controlled by blowing and drawing more or less forcefully as air is directed through the instrument's reeds.
		And then-while one corner or the other of your mouth concentrates on blowing a steady tone through the single hole that's always uncovered-your tongue is moved (in rhythm!) to cover and uncover the other three openings, thereby adding and subtracting the high or low chord.
	www.motherearthnews.com /library/1978_July_August/How_To_Play__Hard_Core__Harmonica (3689 words)

	BBC News \| EDUCATION \| Mouth organ degree awarded
		Steve Lockwood, now 33, took up the mouth organ when he was 18 and practises for five hours a day.
		Mr Lockwood studied a range of styles from the classical work of Larry Adler to the role of the harmonica in pop music.
		He said Stevie Wonder had been a tremendous inspiration and wrote a 2,000-word dissertation on the star's mouth organ work.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/education/newsid_976000/976548.stm (322 words)

	mouth organ
		Hmong instructions to the dead: what the mouth organ qeej says (part one).
		Mouth organ maestro Adler dies; 'One of the youngest old people I ever met' - Sting.(News) (The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland))
		Hmong instructions to the dead: what the mouth organ qeej says (Part two).
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0916481.html (150 words)

	The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland): Mouth organ maestro Adler dies; 'One of the youngest old people I ever ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland): Mouth organ maestro Adler dies; 'One of the youngest old people I ever met' - Sting.(News)@ HighBeam Research
		Mouth organ maestro Adler dies; 'One of the youngest old people I ever met' - Sting.(News)
		Virtuoso musician Larry Adler, widely acknowledged as the world's greatest mouth organ player, has died at the age of 87, his manager announced yesterday.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:77043394&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (184 words)

	ramcguire.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To the great delight of kids and adults alike, he could also play a tiny mouth organ that he would hide completely in his mouth - the notes and rhythm emanating clearly from his lips.
		A mouth organ was with him in the Army - handy in his pocket.
		My first mouth organ was one of his.
	ra.trooper.ca /2003_07_01_archives.html (3237 words)

	Mouth organ boiling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Plastic mouth organs are pretty robust but don't boil the wooden ones for longer than you absolutely have to.
		Take one mouth organ and place in a pan of boiling water so that it is well covered Bring back to the boil, and cool by adding plenty of cold water.
		Now take the mouth organ out of the pan and dry it by blowing (in the usual way).
	www.dixngood.demon.co.uk /bill/docs/mouth.htm (174 words)

	mouth organ on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Beyond the Fringe: the lowlights of Edinburgh Festival; There's a naked sex addict, a thriller performed in a sports car (to an audience of one) and a magician who swallows his mouth organ.
		Staying Afloat: `I watch, heart in mouth, as Conor and Clara are given the run of the exciting power-tools'.(Features)
		The American jazz musician Ray CHARLES (vocals, piano, organ, saxophones, conductor).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-mouthorg.asp (511 words)

	Bush Dance & Music Club of Bendigo Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The mouth organ was one of the most popular portable instruments in the bush and prominent at concerts and for dances.
		The Spring Gully dance was run to the music of one mouth organ until the Tone Kings were established in the 1960’s.
		The Jew’s Harp was as common as mouth organs from mid nineteenth century until early twentieth century.
	redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au /~fniaz/bdance/bendigo.html (3012 words)

	Should we call it a harmonica or a mouth organ?
		Many players (the late Larry Adler, for one) have suggested that that "harmonica" is less correct than "mouth organ".
		For a start, the term "mouth organ" can refer to many instruments - from the Asian sheng, sho, khaen, sumpoton, etc., to the Western harmonicas, blow accordions, melodicas and similar instruments.
		The earliest Western mouth organs were often called harmonicons (Helmholtz in his classic work "On The Sensations of Tone", 1877, mentions "cheap mouth harmonicons", as well as using the term "harmonicon" to denote xylophone-like instruments of wood, metal and glass).
	www.patmissin.com /ffaq/q2.html (463 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Bamboo on the Mountains - Kmhm [Compilation] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Over the course of 38 tracks, bamboo reedpipes, flutes, mouth organs, and blowing tubes are demonstrated and augmented with gongs, cymbals, wooden and bamboo drums, and singing.
		Songs from Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and the U.S. display the wide range of instruments and sounds that are derived from bamboo, whether it's the brassy reedpipes like the pii tuut ngo', the warbling tones of the Toot flute, droning, reedy skgkuul mouth organ, or the almost violin-like timbre of the hur tlaa rung blowing tube.
		The instruments included are things like mouth organs, various flutes, reedpipes, percussion, etc...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002JXDN (702 words)

	BBC News \| MUSIC \| Larry Adler: Mouth organ virtuoso
		Larry Adler was the best-known mouth organist in the world.
		Shortly afterwards he started playing the harmonica, which he always called a "mouth organ".
		To many he was the man who made the mouth organ respectable - though he never meant to.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/music/newsid_198000/198252.stm (801 words)

	Star - City mourns its mouth organ-playing walrus
		Hamburg - For more than two decades she was the face which launched a thousand television shows, this city's symbolic figure and the centre of attraction at dinner time.
		With her melancholic look and ability to play the mouth organ while eating fish soup, Antje was a celebrity before the word became fashionable.
		Early yesterday, Antje passed away at her zoo home in Germany's northern port of Hamburg, leaving the city in mourning.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=191136 (251 words)

	Butt, infos about Butt : arabic world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Like the harmonica and various small organs, the accordion was inspired by the Chinese sheng mouth organ, whose introduction to Europe in the 1770s spurred experimentation with the principle of a free reed that vibrates in a stream of air.
		Among its immediate predecessors, in fact, was a mouth-blown instrument with a keyboard, called the Aura.
		An accordion's characteristic feature is a bellows operated by the player; the air thus generated sounds a reed when it is released by a keyboard key or a button.
	www.arabiano.com /Butt.html (4087 words)

	Organ: Mouth - CureResearch.com
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		Mouth: Facial opening used for breathing, eating, and speech
		Diseases list: The following list of medical conditions have 'Mouth' or similar listed as an affected body part in our database:
	www.cureresearch.com /organ/mouth.htm (220 words)

	MOUTH ORGAN (HARMONICA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Teaches a genuinely traditional style of Irish and British mouth organ – totally different from the "blues harp" method described in other tutors
		Displays comprehensive note diagrams for C and G mouth organs in music and tonic sol-fa – corresponding to numbered holes
		Postage on Halshaw titles 15% of value in UK; 22% to outside UK MOUTH ORGAN SALES: We are official Hohner dealers.
	www.halshawmusic.co.uk /mouth.html (161 words)

	Definition of organ - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		b (1) : a wind instrument consisting of sets of pipes made to sound by compressed air and controlled by keyboards and producing a variety of musical effects -- called also pipe organ (2) :
		(3) : an instrument in which the sound and resources of the pipe organ are approximated by means of electronic devices (4) : any of various similar cruder instruments
		3 : a subordinate group or organization that performs specialized functions organs of government>
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=organ (244 words)

	BlueDoor.com: Adult: Mouth Organ- Directed by staring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Vivid Video presents a gay film called “Mouth Organ: They Blow Themselves,” an exciting feature in which five different men are (separately) interviewed about their first gay experiences, their abilities to suck their own cocks, and more.
		Lastly was Sean Dickson, who also stirred me with his interview; he told of an embarrassing rope climbing experience in 6th grade gym class.
		Mouth Organ was unusual, the participants were all attractive and having fun, and the production value was great (except for a small sound issue during the interviews, but we’re all used to that by now, aren’t we?).
	www.bluedoor.com /movieQproduct_idE8157Zbd (482 words)

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