called by Bacon jeutrompe, by Beaumont and Fletcher, jew-trump, by Hakluyt, jew’s-harp.
The best players on this instrument have been Koch, a Prussian soldier under Frederick the Great; Kunert, Amstein, and some others.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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