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Kouxian (Chinese: 口弦; pinyin: kǒuxián; lit. 'mouth string') is a general Chinese term for any variety of jaw harp. The jaw harp is a plucked idiophone in which the lamella is mounted in a small frame, and the player's open mouth serves as a resonance chamber. Chinese jaw harps may comprise multiple idiophones that are lashed together at ...
The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, [nb 1] is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame. Despite the colloquial name, the Jew's harp most likely originated in Siberia , specifically in or around the Altai Mountains , and is of Turkic origin.
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The angkuoch (Khmer: អង្គួច) is a Cambodian jaw harp (sometimes known as mouth harp or Jew's harp). [1] It is a folk instrument made of bamboo or iron. Two examples of an angkuoch made from bamboo. The bamboo version is carved into a long, flat shape with a hole in the center and a tongue of bamboo across the hole. [2]
The temir komuz (sometimes temir qomuz meaning 'iron komuz/qomuz', ooz komuz meaning 'mouth komuz', or gubuz) is a Kyrgyz jaw harp, while the komuz is a three-stringed fretless lute. As an instrument, the temir komuz is unrelated to the komuz in terms of style and structure; however, it takes its name from the other popular Turkic instrument.
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Mouth harp may refer to: Harmonica; Jaw harp or Jew's harp; Morsing; Temir komuz This page was last edited on ...
Jew's harp music is Library of Congress Subject Heading M175.J4. [2] ... Makigami Koichi: Electric Eel (1998), "newly invented versions of the jaw harp" [34]