mouth organ

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Her lovingly sly Haydn-esque wit came out in the premiere of “Nest Box,” a duo for her and Wu Wei on sheng, the Chinese mouth organ.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

Phil Lindberg’s magnetometer moment involved the aforementioned mouth organ.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2021

As a teenager, Gen. Rowny performed in a Baltimore harmonica band alongside the mouth organ virtuoso Larry Adler.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2017

The newspaper account says the Black Watch soldier had displayed a "perfect genius" for the mouth organ since boyhood and that he "cheered his comrades in billet and in battle".

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2017

Somebody tried to say that it was a mouth organ harp that John was playing, but the rest of them would not hear that.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston