Here is a realy cool old item. Who can tell me what it is and what it was used for?

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thats a mouth harp!its for putting in your mouth and plunging the middle flat wire to make a tune for music!you see them in use in lots of old cowboy movies!and im sticking to it!

Haha, yup.... Jew's Harp, although I don't think the origin is from Jerusalem. Not sure how it got it's name.
I got pretty good with one when I was a kid. Always trying to do the Peter Frampton "do you feel" thing with it, lol.
Sometimes you could get your lip stuck in it too.

Good job guys! That is exactly what it is.

It has many names but I have always known it as a Jews Harp. It was also the instrument Snoopy used whan he was jammin' with Woodstock.

Too funny Chris! Frampton and Walsh songs. They used a talkbox but they have similiar sounds that's for sure.
I haven't gotten my lip stuck in it yet, that sounds painful.