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

Lennon also recalls a Christmas memory in which he reached into a stocking and found a present of a mouth organ.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2021

“Idoru” begins with bird calls and little hoots from what sounds like an Asian mouth organ, and expands into rippling Minimalistic patterns of overlapping instruments and vocals.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2020

You could hear the water and the sound of the mouth organ man playing a sad song back in Hooverville.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis