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

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

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

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

I think that old boy standing there in his silk hat and bare feet, playing his little French harp, was the funniest sight I ever saw.

From Sixes and Sevens by Henry, O.