How To Play The Jews Harp

The bamboo jaw harp, known as kubing or kumbing is used by various Filipino peoples throughout the Philippine archipelago , and features in various neo-folk songs by artists like Joey Ayala and Grace Nono The northern Igorot groups are the only people who produce the afiw or Jew's harp made from bronze.

Beside the single-reed Jew's harps of different materials, he designed himself two- or three-reeds-in-one-Jew's harps, dual- and triple-tone Jew's harps clamped together as one compact set, a Jew's harp with a bell, a screw-type 12-tone Jew's harp and a slideway-type 15-tone Jew's harp with a handtrigger to raise glissandos.

To this day, heteroglot and idioglot jew's harps are found coexisting in many areas of Asia (especially North, Central, and South Asia), perhaps suggesting that the origin of the metal heteroglot form of this instrument happened here, later to be introduced to Europe.

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There are hundreds of varieties of Jew's harps, which are indigenous to many peoples from the Eurasian plateau (Siberia, Europe, China, Central Asia), South and South-East Asia (Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia), Polynesia and other places.

KAZOO: is a musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" sound to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it. The kazoo has been produced in all shapes and sizes, but the most familiar today is a short, open-ended tube of plastic or metal with a wax paper membrane stretched across an open hole on the top of the tube.

Given the reception of Will Atkinson's harmonica playing at both the National Festival and Whitby Folk Week and with festivals encouraging workshops, which is excellent, there does appear to be a core of genuine interest to promote it, so maybe its time the Jew's harp got the same treatment.

For slow melodies I suggest to open and close the cavity with the tongue just behind the upper incisors, like pronouncing de de de. For quick successions of tones you may express doodle doodle doodle, using a swinging move of the tongue on the palate.

Three Jew's harps, for example, discovered in the 19th century in Gallo-Roman sites at Rouen and Parthenay, in France, have caused some excitement in Jew's harp circles, as have a fair number of mid-20th-century instruments found in the Southeast of England and dated as Anglo- Saxon.