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Updated: June 28, 2025
We cannot say that we admire the hurdy-gurdy, that synthesis of a grindstone and a Jew's-harp, yea, of all that is detestable, musically speaking, which must have owed its origin to a desire on the part of Jupiter Musicus, in a bad temper, to invent a suitable purgatory for expiating the sins of delinquent musicians; affording, on this supposition, an exquisite illustration of the perfect adaptation of means to an end one well worthy the attention of all future writers on that subject.
"Splendid! admirable!" he exclaimed, suddenly; "both, voice and elocution perfect you possess the greatest of all accomplishments, madam, next to conversational excellence," rising to his feet, and bowing low and seating himself again, in a formal way of his own. "Music is a mockery compared to such reading! as well set a jew's-harp against the winds of heaven!
He noticed that many of the people in the trees that still held had descended to the ground. The wind had yet again increased. His own tree showed that. It no longer swayed or bent over and back. Instead, it remained practically stationary, curved in a rigid angle from the wind and merely vibrating. But the vibration was sickening. It was like that of a tuning-fork or the tongue of a jew's-harp.
Somebody has to feel it inside of him, just like I do, before he can understand. Can't you feel it? Please! Listen." "Aw, that's an old jew's-harp. I'll buy you one. How's that?" "All right, I guess," she said, starting off suddenly toward the bathhouse. He was relieved that she had thrown off the silence. "Ain't mad any more, are you, Marylin?" "No, Getaway not mad."
There was a little more affluence about the flow of her drapery, and the pink ribbon round her neck was confined by a little dainty Jew's-harp of a brooch; she had her mother's pinch of the nose too.
Then from the zig of the fire escape above, before it twisted down into the zag of hers, there came to Marylin, through the medley of city silences and the tears in her heart, this melody, on a jew's-harp: If it had any key at all, it was in the mood of Chopin's Nocturne in D flat major.
Ann Bartlett gave a little murmur here. "I never heard of anybody's bringin' a jew's-harp into the meetin'-house," she said, as a kind of official protest. "I guess we could get us some kind of a melodeon, 'fore we done such a thing as that." Isabel was going on in that persuasive voice; it seemed to call the town to her to do her bidding. "No, we ain't goin' to do it their way.
When the top was produced, he dropped his jew's-harp to watch it spin on a string held between Maurice's hands; then he devoted himself to the hatchet, and chopped his father's knee, energetically. "Pity there's no cherry tree round," said Maurice; "Look here, Jacobus, I want you always to tell the truth. Understand?" "Huh?" said Jacky.
With a scowl on his face, and an angry look at Jack, Adrian shuffled from the laboratory. The teachers followed Dr. Mead out, while Jack's friends gathered around to congratulate him. "Didn't know you were such a chemist," spoke Sam. "I'll have to play a march of victory on the jew's-harp and mouth organ at the same time!" burst out Fred Kaler.
But Tyrrell comes along, without a flute without as much as a jew's-harp and carelessly grabs that cobra by the neck and strolls off with it wherever he thinks it ought to go, and you believe in the European after all. He is a most enthusiastic naturalist, is Tyrrell.
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