Jew's harp music

This is a list of musical pieces and songs that include or feature the Jew's harp or other resonance based lamellophones. Jew's harp music is Library of Congress Subject Heading M175.J4.[2]

Variety of Western Jew's harps

Karl Eulenstein, famed German Maultrommelspieler

the range of a tenor Jew's harp[1] Play as string harmonics 

Morsing

Bamboo Jew's harps

Bass Đàn môi

Leo Tadagawa playing a mukkuri

7 tuned Kyrgyz komuz

Famous Jew's harpists include the German musicians Father Bruno Glatzl (1721—1773) of Melk Abbey (for whom Albrechtsberger wrote his concerti), Franz Koch (1761—1831), who was discovered by Frederick the Great,[3] and, "the most famous,"[4] Karl Eulenstein (1802—1890).[3] "Four of the famous Jew's Harp virtuosos of the world,"[5] today are Svein Westad,[6] Leo Tadagawa,[7] Trần Quang Hải, and the late John Wright (1948-2013).[8][9] Other performers include Phons Bakx and the earlier Angus Lawrie and Patric Devane.[8] US country musician Jimmie Fadden played the Jew's harp on many albums.[10]

In the experimental period at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century there were very virtuoso instrumentalists on the mouth harp. Thus, for example, Johann Heinrich Scheibler was able to mount up to ten mouth harps on a support disc. He called the instrument "Aura". Each mouth harp was tuned to different basic tones, which made even chromatic sequences possible.

— Walter Maurer, 1983 (translated from German)[11]