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The culture section also includes an embroidery room and an interactive Hmong folk arts exhibit focusing on traditional funeral songs and cherished instruments, such as a two-stringed violin, the ncas (a mouth harp) and the qeej, (a six-pipe mouth organ).
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NBC News, 3 Feb. 2022
The singer, instrumentalist, radio and TV personality played fiddle and guitar as his primary instruments, but also was known to play banjo, bass, mouth harp and accordion.
—William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 13 Jan. 2023
Investigators have found seventeenth-century pottery, horn buttons, sewing tools, and a brass mouth harp, as well as a burial ground for those who worked at Sylvester Manor against their will.
—Tom Junod, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
The instruments appear to have been made by splintering the ribs of cows or horses, which distinguishes them from other ancient mouth harps found in the region.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2018
The mouth harp that Borodovsky played is about 4.3 inches long and 3.3 inches wide.
—National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2018
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NBC News, 3 Feb. 2022
The singer, instrumentalist, radio and TV personality played fiddle and guitar as his primary instruments, but also was known to play banjo, bass, mouth harp and accordion.
—William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 13 Jan. 2023
Investigators have found seventeenth-century pottery, horn buttons, sewing tools, and a brass mouth harp, as well as a burial ground for those who worked at Sylvester Manor against their will.
—Tom Junod, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
The instruments appear to have been made by splintering the ribs of cows or horses, which distinguishes them from other ancient mouth harps found in the region.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2018
The mouth harp that Borodovsky played is about 4.3 inches long and 3.3 inches wide.
—National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2018
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“Mouth harp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mouth%20harp. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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