Jew's Harp          

         The Musical Instrument, Jaw Harp, Mouth Harp, Ozark Harp, Trump , Khomus , Kubyz Or Juice Harp, May Be A Lamellophone Instrument, That Is Within The Class Of Plucked Idiophones: It Consists Of A Versatile Metal Or Bamboo Tongue Or Reed Hooked Up To A Frame. The Tongue/Reed Is Placed Within The Performer's Mouth And Plucked With The Finger To Provide A Note.

          Jew’s Harp, Additionally Known As Jaw’s Harp, Juice Harp, Or Guimbard , Jew’s Harp Musical Instrument Consisting Of A Skinny Wood Or Metal Tongue Fastened At One Finish To The Bottom Of A Two-Pronged Frame. The Player Holds The Frame To His Mouth, That Forms A Resonance Cavity, And Activates The Instrument’s Tongue By Either Plucking It With The Fingers Or Jerking A String Hooked Up To The Top Of The Instrument. The Notes Made Area Unit Restricted To The Fourth Through Tenth Tones Of The Harmonic Series (In Relative Pitch, C–E–G–B♭ [Approximately]–C′–D′–E′). The Tongue Produces Only 1 Pitch; Sterilization The Form Of The Mouth Cavity Isolates The Individual Harmonics That Area Unit Elements Of The Tongue’s Sound. In 18th-Century Europe Virtuoso Players Used Instruments With 2 Or Additional Tongues Of Various Pitch, So Permitting An Entire Scale.

            Jew’s Harps Square Measure Cosmopolitan In Oceanica And Asia, Particularly In Social Group Cultures, And In Europe, Wherever They Were Introduced From Asia By The Fourteenth Century. The Characteristic European Type, Additionally Found Elsewhere, Could Be A Pear-Shaped Metal Frame With A Metal Tongue Affixed . Several Non-European Forms Square Measure Slender Instruments Cut From One Piece Of Bamboo Or Wood.

           The Delicate, Barely Sonic Sound Of The Jew’s Harp LED In Asia To Its Frequent Association With Contemplation Associate In Nursingd To Its Use In Kingdom Of Thailand And 19th-Century Austria As An Instrument For Lover’s Serenades. The Jew’s Harp Is One Amongst Many Idiophones (Instruments Whose Sounding Components Square Measure Resonant Solids) Vibrated By Plucking Instead Of By Percussion.