Definitions for mouth organ
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1. harmonica, mouth organ, harp, mouth harpnoun

   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

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1. mouth organnoun

   The harmonica

2. mouth organnoun

   The panpipes

3. mouth organnoun

   The Jew's harp

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1. mouth organ

   The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica include diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions. A harmonica is played by using the mouth (lips and tongue) to direct air into or out of one (or more) holes along a mouthpiece. Behind each hole is a chamber containing at least one reed. The most common is the diatonic Richter-tuned with ten air passages and twenty reeds, often called the blues harp. A harmonica reed is a flat, elongated spring typically made of brass, stainless steel, or bronze, which is secured at one end over a slot that serves as an airway. When the free end is made to vibrate by the player's air, it alternately blocks and unblocks the airway to produce sound. Reeds are tuned to individual pitches. Tuning may involve changing a reed’s length, the weight near its free end, or the stiffness near its fixed end. Longer, heavier, and springier reeds produce deeper, lower sounds; shorter, lighter, and stiffer reeds make higher-pitched sounds. If, as on most modern harmonicas, a reed is affixed above or below its slot rather than in the plane of the slot, it responds more easily to air flowing in the direction that initially would push it into the slot, i.e., as a closing reed. This difference in response to air direction makes it possible to include both a blow reed and a draw reed in the same air chamber and to play them separately without relying on flaps of plastic or leather (valves, wind-savers) to block the nonplaying reed. An important technique in performance is bending, causing a drop in pitch by making embouchure adjustments. Bending isolated reeds is possible, as on chromatic and other harmonica models with wind-savers, but also to both lower, and raise (overbend, overblow, overdraw) the pitch produced by pairs of reeds in the same chamber, as on a diatonic or other unvalved harmonica. Such two-reed pitch changes actually involve sound production by the normally silent reed, the opening reed (for instance, the blow reed while the player is drawing).

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1. mouth organ

   A mouth organ is a type of musical instrument that is played by blowing air through a set of reeds, typically set in a rectangular frame, to produce distinctive sounds. Different notes are played by controlling the flow of air from the mouth into the instrument. Examples of mouth organs include the harmonica, melodica, and accordion.

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1. Mouth organ

   A mouth organ is a generic term for free reed aerophone with one or more air chambers fitted with a free reed. Though it spans many traditions, it is played universally the same way by the musician placing their lips over a chamber or holes in the instrument, and blowing or sucking air to create a sound. Many of the chambers can be played together or each individually. The mouth organ can be found all around the world and is known by many different names and seen in many different traditions. The most notable variations include the harmonica, the pan flute, and Asian free reed wind instruments consisting of a number of bamboo pipes of varying lengths fixed into a wind chest; these include the sheng, khaen, lusheng, yu, Shō, and saenghwang. The melodica, consisting of a single tube that is essentially blown through a keyboard, is another variation.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mouth organ in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mouth organ in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mouth organ
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mouth_Organ
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouth_Organ
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=mouth organ