La Bolduc
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Mary Rose-Anne Bolduc was a musician and singer of French Canadian music. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s, she was known as the Queen of Can
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Mary Bolduc with fellow musicians, 1928
Mary Bolduc with a fiddle
Sheet music for Le Jour de l'An
Jew's harp
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The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame. Despite the colloquial nam
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…her father, who taught her how to play the instruments that were traditional in Quebec culture of the era: the fiddle, accordion, harmonica, spoons and jaw harp. She learned traditional music from the two heritages, both Irish melodies and French-Canadian folk tunes. The family did not own a record player, piano…
A novelty Jew's harp sold in the U.S.
Slovak "drumbľa"
Jew's harp (kouxian) from the Taosi site in Shanxi, China, dated to around 2000 BCE
Angel playing a Jew's harp at the Minstrels' Gallery at Exeter Cathedral, 13th/14th century