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Mouth organ

noun

A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole. Synonyms: harmonica, harp, mouth harp.

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"Mouth organ" Quotes from Famous Books

... starfields, we couldn't quite decide, and there were no captions to help; a thin book with ricepaper pages covered with Chinese characters—that was a puzzler; a thick book with nothing but columns of figures, all zeros and ones and nothing else; some tiny chisels; and a mouth organ. Pop, who'd make a point of just helping in the hunt, appropriated that last item—I might have known he would, I told myself. Now we could expect "Turkey in ...

— The Night of the Long Knives • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... angrily, opened her mouth to speak, and, changing her mind, looked at him witheringly. He didn't wither, however. Instead, he smiled broadly, got out his mouth organ, and cheerfully entertained them with his favorite, "I Met My Love In ...

— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine

Words linked to "Mouth organ" : free-reed instrument, harmonica