i just ordered one and was wondering if anyone had some begginer tip or some videos that help! Thank You!
P.S. also a great jews harp player in Kombkomb he has a YouTube account so look him up!
I had one way back. Only advice I have is when youâre learning; push the steel tongue, rather than pull. That way you wonât smack your teeth really hard.
You might check youtube and google for âMouth Harp,â which is the general PC term for it.
Jaw harps are awesome! If you are holding it in a way that it smacks your teeth, youâre using it wrong. You want your teeth to be positioned on the outside bevels on the frame. This will give the best sound. You donât want to hold it with just your lips as the sound will not be as good. If your teeth are behind the frame, you could smack your teeth like unibrier said (a big one could actually break your teeth!), and you donât want your teeth on the very top and bottom of the frame where you are kind of biting it. This will kind of work, but it could also hurt your teeth. On a small soprano model, you could easily flex the frame enough to obstruct the path of the tounge. Have fun! Theyâre an amazing little instrument!
Is harmonica a sasky term? or is it actually a different instrument. I thought that only old people called them jew harps and never heard the term mouth harp before. Played harmonica a bit but was never good at it.
sorry I wasnât any help.
never heard of the jaw harp, but am familiar with the harmonica.
Jewâs/Jaw harps are a key-shaped thing with a metal spring. You put it against your teeth and pluck it and it makes a âboingâ sound that you can change with your mouth - can sound a little bit like a didgeridoo. Nothing to do with a harmonica/mouth organ/blues harp.
Rob
When in dhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewâs_harpfo in there.
A Jewâs Harp is a Jewâs Harp; a Blues Harp is a Harmonica.
Yes i have one. i use it all the time. i am not sure exactly what it is meant to do, i just make it do boingy noises with my mouth and tounge. It passes time amazingly 
Yeah, exactly, Its easy to play tunes, if you know what your gonna be hitting for a note. Simple to play, yet really fun. It gives me an idea to find mine, and bring it to school to pass time⌠Eh, i think iâll bring it then. MaybeâŚ
I remember getting one when I was in primary school! Really good fun. You can say the alphabet and talk in a really weird voice and stuff.
No idea where mine is now, but I know it started going all rusty and horrible. I hit my teeth a fair few times with it too.
I happen to be the owner of a Jewâs jaw.
In the case of the illustrious JJuggle, a mensch mandible.
lol, when i was in school, i used it to mess w/ the science teacher, sheâd hear the noise but she couldnât figure out where it was coming from and iâd have it out of sight when she turned around. it also made a great little catapult that could shoot things to the far side of the room (pencil points, bbs, etc., lol).
btw, grover harps are awesome! they were some of my favorite
Whatâd you do with the rest of the body?
well I just got my Jews Harp (Jaw Harp if that offends you) and they are awesome i will be posting some pictures of it later this week or something so if you wanna see it just ask!
I VERY MUCH RECOMMEND THIS IVE GOTTEN THE HANG OF THIS IN LIKE 1HOUR AND ITâS FUN! BUT DONT LET IT SMACK YOUR TEETH OR LIPS OUCH THAT HURTS!!!
Itâs a Jewâs harp. Thatâs what itâs called. Never mind all this PC nonsense. I doubt any Jew has ever been offended by the term which is in no sense derogatory. If it is considered mildly offensive, it is way down on the list of things that the Jews have had to worry about over the last couple of thousand years.
A mouth harp or blues harp is a harmonica: a reed instrument that you suck and blow.
A Jewâs harp has a single prong that you twang. You hold the two âlegsâ of the frame against the front of your teeth and twang the prong with your finger. It is a common mistake to grip the âlegsâ between your teeth.
You control the sound by modifying the shape of your mouth cavity.
Generally, you donât play each note individually, but you keep twanging the prong rhythmically and follow the âgeneral shapeâ of the tune.
With practice, it can be a genuinely musical instrument rather than a toy.
I was at a Morris session once when two people with Jewâs harps played a Jewâs harp version of Duelling Banjos. We had to crowd round and keep quiet because the instruments are no loud, but it was pretty good.