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Definition of Mouth organ

1. Noun. A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole.

Definition of Mouth organ

1. Noun. The harmonica ¹

2. Noun. The panpipes ¹

3. Noun. The Jew's harp ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mouth Organ

Literary usage of Mouth organ

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"His color-clavichord is as symptomatic in this respect as the mouth-organ of Des Esseintes that we shall discuss in a later chapter. ..."

2. Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert William Service (1909)
"THE SONG OF THE MOUTH- ORGAN (With apologies to the singer of the "Song of the Banjo.") I'ma homely little bit of tin and bone; I'm beloved by the Legion of ..."

3. The Saturday Magazine (1841)
"On these principles the mouth-organ is constructed. It consists of a number of hollow canes or reeds, ranged side by side, and secured by cross bands of ..."

4. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"The "mouth organ" is referred to by a writer in Musical Opinion as a ... We read: • "The apotheosis of the mouth organ is certainly one of the war's ..."

5. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"The mouth organ, or Pant Pipet, are well known; being so often played as an ... The tones of the mouth-organ are certainly agreeable, but are besi heard at ..."

6. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"His color-clavichord is as symptomatic in this respect as the mouth-organ of Des Esseintes that we shall discuss in a later chapter. ..."

7. Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert William Service (1909)
"THE SONG OF THE MOUTH- ORGAN (With apologies to the singer of the "Song of the Banjo.") I'ma homely little bit of tin and bone; I'm beloved by the Legion of ..."

8. The Saturday Magazine (1841)
"On these principles the mouth-organ is constructed. It consists of a number of hollow canes or reeds, ranged side by side, and secured by cross bands of ..."

9. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"The "mouth organ" is referred to by a writer in Musical Opinion as a ... We read: • "The apotheosis of the mouth organ is certainly one of the war's ..."

10. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"The mouth organ, or Pant Pipet, are well known; being so often played as an ... The tones of the mouth-organ are certainly agreeable, but are besi heard at ..."

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