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

I think that old boy standing there in his silk hat and bare feet, playing his little French harp, was the funniest sight I ever saw.

From Sixes and Sevens by Henry, O.

But Eliot shook her head doubtfully, and when the boys came up with a banjo and French harp to put the bear through his performances, she watched the dancing at a respectful distance.

From The Little Colonel's House Party by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

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)