mouth organ

noun

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Advertisement Adler, who will play the Thai mouth organ — known as a khaen — at the concert, is a music professor and director of Asian Studies at the University of San Diego. Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2023 Other effects include the whine of a mouth organ and slaps of piano and harp strings. Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 22 June 2023 Phil Lindberg’s magnetometer moment involved the aforementioned mouth organ. Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021

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First Known Use

1847, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of mouth organ was in 1847

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“Mouth organ.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mouth%20organ. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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