goose

[Judith R Cohen <judithc...>]

hi, I was wondering whether anyone would ask! I've never seen it played,
only seen one old photograph of an Inuit woman playing it, with the
author's speculation that the jew's harp, introduced probably by early
Scottish traders, replaced it.

By the way, about that name "jew's harp"..... I've been told it's a
deformation of "jaw's harp". In other languages I know of it has totally
unrelated names, e.g. "berimbau" in Portuguese - it seems to have this
name only in English. Cheers, Judith

> 
> Judith
> How do you play the goose quill?
> Lucy Fisher
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