What's This - #7, Can you identify this antique? |
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What's This - #7, Can you identify this antique? |
  Sep 21 2012, 04:26 PM
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 Master Mucker!  Group: Admin Posts: 7,206 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4  |
Here is a realy cool old item. Who can tell me what it is and what it was used for?
 
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Sep 21 2012, 04:34 PM
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russau Group: Members Posts: 2,841 Joined: 4-December 03 From: st.louis missouri Member No.: 43 |
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!
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Sep 21 2012, 08:13 PM
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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. -------------------- /l ,[____], l---L-OlllllllO- ()_) ()_)--o-)_) BLACK SANDS MATTER! Very Happy CP Lifetime Member CP CORE TEAM Referral Code CE213 |
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Sep 24 2012, 03:30 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,206 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
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. 
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