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 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)

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)

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