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

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.

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)