French harp

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Then I do a number with the guit-tar and play the French harp and sing, all at the same time.

From Time Magazine Archive

When I play a French harp, she will cry and act very sad.

From Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

There were declamations, debates, the interminable, singsong ballads of the frontier, usually accompanied by French harp or fiddle.

From A Mountain Boyhood by Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)

Somewhere one is playing a tin flute, another is playing a French harp, and some are singing.

From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by McCutcheon, John T.

The vocal cords do not vibrate as strings, like the strings of a violin, but somewhat as reeds, similar to the reeds of a French harp or reed organ.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.