Jew’s harp, also called jaw’s harp, juice harp, or guimbard, musical instrument consisting of a thin wood or metal tongue fixed at one end to the base of a two-pronged frame. In 18th-century Europe virtuoso players used instruments with two or more tongues of different pitch, thus allowing a complete musical scale.

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The instrument is both a wind instrument and percussion instrument.

The musical sounds of the jaw harp are undeniably unique and an interesting instrument to add to your musical repertoire. Learning how to play the mouth harp is not as difficult as you may think! The jaw harp consists of a small metal U-shape body and a rod that is flicked with the finger to produce sound.

Pavel Potkin Standard are nice little vargan that are easy to play, low cost, and come with a wooden case for harping on the go! This is a sturdy brass harp with a softer reed and they tend to bode well with children of all ages from 5 to 95! Some other good beginner choices are the Rekha Hybrid and Ghorka Tailess.

Jaw harps are thought to have originated in Asia several thousand years ago. A simple instrument, they consist of a brass or iron frame, similar in shape to a tuning fork, with a steel spring between the tines.

But La Beau is right: it is the same principle. You use your mouth as the acoustical chamber for the harp. To hold it in place, you use your teeth or lips, which must be slightly parted to let the reed (or twanger) vibrate. Then, by changing the shape of your mouth, you can create different overtones.

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Zeebo is a black man who lives in Maycomb. He is the son of the Finch family’s cook, Calpurnia, and is a garbage truck driver.

Zeebo, the garbage collector, is the oldest son of Calpurnia, the Finches’ maid. Mentioned briefly in Chapter 10 in which Atticus shoots the rabid dog, Zeebo lifts the dead Tim Johnson with a pitchfork and tosses it into the back of the garbage truck.