List_of_songs_which_use_the_Jew's_harp

Jew's harp music

Jew's harp music

Music written for Jew's harp

This is a list of musical pieces and songs that include or feature the Jew's harp or other resonance based lamellophones. Jew's harp music is Library of Congress Subject Heading M175.J4.[2]

Variety of Western Jew's harps
Karl Eulenstein, famed German Maultrommelspieler
the range of a tenor Jew's harp[1] Play as string harmonicsⓘ
Morsing
Bamboo Jew's harps
Bass Đàn môi
Leo Tadagawa playing a mukkuri
7 tuned Kyrgyz komuz

Famous Jew's harpists include the German musicians Father Bruno Glatzl (1721–1773) of Melk Abbey (for whom Albrechtsberger wrote his concerti), Franz Koch (1761–1831), who was discovered by Frederick the Great,[3] and, "the most famous,"[4] Karl Eulenstein (1802–1890).[3] "Four of the famous Jew's Harp virtuosos of the world,"[5] today are Svein Westad,[6] Leo Tadagawa,[7] Trần Quang Hải, and the late John Wright (1948–2013).[8][9] Other performers include Phons Bakx and the earlier Angus Lawrie and Patric Devane.[8] US country musician Jimmie Fadden played the Jew's harp on many albums.[10]

In the experimental period at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century there were very virtuoso instrumentalists on the mouth harp. Thus, for example, Johann Heinrich Scheibler was able to mount up to ten mouth harps on a support disc. He called the instrument "Aura". Each mouth harp was tuned to different basic tones, which made even chromatic sequences possible.

— Walter Maurer, 1983 (translated from German)[11]

1700s

1900s

2000s

References

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    Library of Congress (2011). Library of Congress Subject Headings, 33rd ed., Vol.III (F-K), p.4199. Library of Congress. ISSN 1048-9711.
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    Burnley, James (1886). The Romance of Invention: Vignettes from the Annals of Industry and Science, p.335. Cassell. [ISBN unspecified].
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    "Munnharpas Verden", DanMoi.com.
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    Svein Westad at AllMusic.
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    Jimmie Fadden at AllMusic.
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    Chris Woodstra, John Bush, Stephen Thomas Erlewine; eds. (2008). Contemporary Country, p.36. Hal Leonard. ISBN 9780879309183. The jew's harp is, "something you don't hear on many records these days, if ever."
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