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harmonicaMusical instrument, a pocket-sized reed organ blown directly from the mouth, invented by Charles Wheatstone in 1829.
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He ran into the storeroom and brought out a gaudily painted harmonica, sat down on a bench, and spreading his fat legs apart began to play like a whole band. He resurrected the harmonica with which it was his wont, ashore in public-houses, to while away the time between bottles. And I met others, including the Vigy brothers, who ran the place, and, chiefest of all, Joe Goose, with the wicked eyes, the twisted nose, and the flowered vest, who played the harmonica like a roystering angel and went on the most atrocious tears that even the Oakland water-front could conceive of and admire. |
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