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Jew’s harp

This is a mouth-resonated, plucked idiophone with an heteroglot lamella (i.e. lamella attached to frame, not cut from) attached to a frame in the shape of a key-hole. It is entirely made of steel.

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  • Inscriptions:Stamped on frame: MADE IN / ENGLAND
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:121.221 (Single) heteroglot guimbardes
  • Repository:Colchester and Ipswich Museums
  • Measurements:Length: 75mm; Width: 48mm; Height: 19mm