French harp
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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
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When I play a French harp, she will cry and act very sad.
From Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
The evening passed quietly, the foreman talking but little, though he entertained Ralph for a time by playing on a French harp, or mouth organ.
From Ralph Granger's Fortunes by Brown, William Perry
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
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.