An ancient mouth harp discovered in Russia delighted archaeologists when they confirmed that it could still make a sound. The instrument was one of five mouth harps discovered by archaeologists at two ...

Concertgoers most readily recognize Kenneth Dean as a fellow who carries out his work in the back row of orchestras, since he serves as timpanist in the Santa Fe Symphony and percussionist in the New ...

Kouxian, or ancient jaw harp, is the earliest string instrument that has been found in China. By placing kouxian between the lips and tapping it with the fingers, the instrument can produce sounds, ...

Up in the mountains of Siberia’s Altai Republic, where the Huns once roamed, archaeologists have found five ancient harps, which were placed in the mouth and plucked to produce music. According to ...

Googler Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up ...

I first found a Mouth Harp when I was around twelve or thirteen years old, in a little basket of trinkets in my mother’s room. It was a small object that made no sense to me, and I took it to my mom ...

This is the baffling moment a musician created a bass-effect and electronica music using only a jaw harp in his kitchen in Russia. Ildar Gimadiev, from Kazan in Russia, holds the intricate instrument ...

Unlike the traditional kouxian performing style, Ma usually hits the jaw harp faster, which results in a louder reverberation of sounds produced by mouth. In 2022, Ma received a master award, during ...