French harp

Example Sentences

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Then I do a number with the guit-tar and play the French harp and sing, all at the same time.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a band to lead the procession; a band of three boys, playing on a French harp, a jew's-harp, and a drum.

From The Story of Dago by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

There were declamations, debates, the interminable, singsong ballads of the frontier, usually accompanied by French harp or fiddle.

From A Mountain Boyhood by Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)

Somewhere one is playing a tin flute, another is playing a French harp, and some are singing.

From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by McCutcheon, John T.

But he mastered the mouth-organ,—it was called a French harp in those days,—and before he had put on his first collar, Watts McHurdie had taught the boy to play the accordion.

From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen