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Instrument of abuse in use by naked vicar
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harmonica
Alternative clues for the word harmonica
- After theatre, even in coma playing instrument
- One of Dylan's instruments
- Mouth organ
- Girl on instrument having forsaken piano for one that's blown
- Relative of a panpipe
- Not half hard-up, money's in cash one's blown
- A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
- Play this on 1 March badly, then 1 April
Word definitions for harmonica in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note 2 a musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harmonicon \Har*mon"i*con\ (-[i^]*k[o^]n), n. A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds; it is now called the harmonica .
Usage examples of harmonica.
Everything he could think of that might help or amuse the Aucas, should they pay the men a visit, Jim put into the bag: harmonica, snakebite kit, flashlight, View-Master with picture reels, yo-yo, and, above all, the precious notebook of Auca language material, with the carefully arranged morphology file.
All through Austria, in every dining room, those poor, pathetic, imitation Strausses, with accordions and harmonicas and zithers, playing their poor, pathetic renditions of Strauss.
Toward the end there we had three guitars, harmonica, tenor sax, alto recorder, and an autoharp going, and it got pretty juicy.
Superficially, the case looks like Harmonica Man -- you've got the wild seizures, the hard clonic tensing of the spine, the bleed, the chewing.
The room was packed and the band onstage was cooking, playing a street symphony of pounding electric lead and bass guitars, harmonica, and drums.
When she failed to find what she was looking for, probably her harmonica, Maria turned the bag inside out: a moment later, something lay on the beach towel.
This harmonica was extremely well constructed, with no broken reeds, and every note was pure and in perfect pitch.
An occasional bull fiddle, mandolin, harmonica, or banjo lent spice to some of the meetings, but even without them the dances went fine.
If the harmonica were not his chosen instrument, that was not apparent now.
When I did the autopsy, I found that this Harmonica Man was an alcoholic with cirrhosis of the liver, and he had varicose veins in the esophagus.
From Maria's childlike, sentimental, and yet so sweet harmonica I was transported, without transition, to the concert hall, and I was the conductor.
Her finger moved over Union Square, where Kate Moran had lived, and over East Houston Street, where Harmonica Man and Lem had lived, then over the Lower East Side, where Hector Ramirez and his family lived - and to the Sixth Avenue flea market on Twenty.
There was a great battle in the eighteenth century in Germany, in the recurring nightmares of Marianne Kirchgessner, a blind virtuoso on the glass harmonica.
Instead, unearthly music, as though from a glass harmonica, came from the far end, which appeared to be about fifty meters away.
He remembered how Pags had been over there in the green — skinny, black-haired, his cheeks still dotted with the last of his post-adolescent acne, a rifle in his hands and two Hohner harmonicas (one key of C, one key of G) stuffed into the waistband of his camo trousers.