harmonica
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Nicknamed "The Clobberer", Ranken played drums, percussion, harmonica and provided vocals for The Pogues in the 90s and 00s.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
An example of a highly creative response includes words like "galaxy, fork, freedom, algae, harmonica, quantum, nostalgia, velvet, hurricane, photosynthesis."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026
He played the blues harmonica between dives and told me he had learned to act at the Jewish community center in the Bronx.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
That persistent harmonica intro or, god-forbid, his later forays into doo-wop were an eternal annoyance, part of the reason he started looking for some alternative in the first place.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
Dick was sick of him— his harmonica, his aches and ills, his superstitions, the weepy, womanly eyes, the nagging, whispering voice.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
On Venus, sounds that are caused by solid objects vibrating, like harmonicas or reed organ pipes, would be pitched down because the atmosphere is dense and soupy.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
I was imagining a Fellini-esque street parade with party hats, guitars and harmonicas, but decided that such a cinematic allusion would only reveal my age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
The trademark harmonicas have been holstered, at least for now, his audience shrinking from a spellbound national electorate to a spirited weekday gathering of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2016
Sometimes we give the kids harmonicas – it’s not unusual to have up to 600 kids in an auditorium or a gym, and believe it or not, more often than not, it is not chaotic.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2016
In vain did musical glasses and harmonicas resound, the piano and voices re-echo; these supposed aids only seemed to increase the patients' convulsive movements.
From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by Alpheus, A.
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