jaw harp

The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.

The jaw harp gained spiritual and transcendental importance by serving as something that protected one's identity from being stolen by malevolent spirits and entities by concealing it. Electric vocoders or voice-encoding devices were invented for military communication purposes.

The origin of Jew's is uncertain. Some have connected it to the Cleveland dialectal gew-gaw, related to the Old Norse giga (compare modern Swedish giga). Others have suggested it derives from an early English or German word jue or jaws. The synonym jaw harp may have therefore come first.

The player holds the frame to his mouth, which forms a resonance cavity, and activates the instrument's tongue by either plucking it with the fingers or jerking a string attached to the end of the instrument.

The harp is a multi-stringed musical instrument, or chordophone, that has a resonator (or soundboard) that vibrates with the movement of the strings, producing the sound of the notes. There are several different kinds of harps: there are framed harps, open harps, and folk harps, just to name a few.

The word “harp” originates from the German, Old Norse and Anglo Saxon words meaning “to pluck.” It might have strings, but it's not a guitar! The harp is meant to be played with the first four fingers on both hands.

Playing the jew's harp stops the stormy stream of thoughts that rummages through our head every moment. If you continue your exercises and practice at least 15 minutes a day, then the skill of introspection develops in you, you begin to pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Lamellate Jew's Harps can have different shapes. They are made from one piece of wood or metal (mostly brass), into which the reed is cut. In most cases the frame encloses the reed. The player holds the frame on the side of the reed tip and plucks the frame on the side of the reed base.

Gentle, metallic, blurring, resonant, short, hard, drifting, full-sounding, rushing, clear, brilliant, glittering, flowing, dull, mellow, sharp, crystal clear, reverberating, splashing, cascading. The attack time is short and depends on the length of the string.

The Jaw Harp consists of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer's mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note. The pitch of the note can be changed... The Jaw Harp consists of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue attached to a frame.

The morsing (also mukharshanku, mourching, morching or morchang; Sanskrit: दंत वाद्यन्तरात्मसत्रस्य, Telugu: మోర్సింగ్, Kannada: ಮೋರ್ಸಿಂಗ್, Rajasthani: मोरचंग, Tamil: நாமுழவு அல்லது முகச்சங்கு, Malayalam: മുഖർശംഖ്, English: "jaw harp") is an instrument similar to the Jew's harp, mainly used in Rajasthan, in the ...

The harp had an important role in legend and folklore. It not only was the instrument assigned to King David, but also was credited with supernatural powers which could destroy the feynde's myght. The Romanesque harp was developed in the eleventh through thirteenth centuries.