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Harmonica - mouth organ - any other words for it?
Harmonica - mouth organ - any other words for it?
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apskarp
333 posts
Sep 16, 2010
2:21 AM
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In some other thread I saw that Hohner is said to be Harmonika company, where harmonika stands for not only the harmonicas but also accordions etc. This was actually quite useful piece of info as I have wondered why the words in Finnish are what they are.
Harmonica in finnish is "Huuliharppu". In english that would mean literally "lip harp". Sometimes it's called just "Harppu" which really means "Harp" (you know, the instrument with lots of strings).
Accordion on the other hand is called "Harmonikka". You can easily see that this is actually lot closer word for harmonica than accordion.
So I have been wondering why is that so and my theory has been that probably it is because Hohner makes both harmonicas and accordions and some Finnish early adopters have just accidentally mixed the words and that's it. Know I think that it is actually because the harmonika has referred to all to these instruments that work with the same principle of reeds&slots that are blown and drawn into.
To make it even more complex we also have "munniharppu", which is I believe, called "mouth harp" in english.You know, the instrument that actually looks a lot like the Harp but has just one vibrating string that uses the mouth cavity as a resonating chamber. Here the terms are actually pretty close as "munni" is derived from the swedish word "mun" = "mouth".
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Rikus
40 posts
Sep 16, 2010
4:08 AM
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In Afrikaans it's called a "bekfluitjie".
"Bek" is a very crass word for mouth. "Fluitjie" is the diminutive form of "fluit", which means "whistle" (the noun, not the verb).
Roughly in English it would be "little mouth whistle".
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Heart2Harp
132 posts
Sep 16, 2010
8:22 AM
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In Québec, we have many words for it:
ruine babine
ruine-gueule
brise-babine
(loosely translated all of these give ''lip messer upper'' or ''lip damager'')
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ruine-moustache (mustache messer-upper)
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musique à bouche (loosely translated music for mouth)
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toddlgreene
1791 posts
Sep 16, 2010
8:28 AM
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One of my Scottish friends refers to it as a 'moothie'.
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Helix
48 posts
Sep 16, 2010
8:28 AM
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I have heard it called the "gob iron".
British slang "gob" = "mouth"
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RyanMortos
786 posts
Sep 16, 2010
8:42 AM
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Overkill:
harmonica, mouth organ, mundorgel, orgue à bouche, french harp, fidil fhrancach, moothie, mississippi saxophone, harpoon, gob iron, tin sandwich, mundharpe, ruines babines, huuliharppu, fotzhobel, munnharpa, gaita, organillo de boca, harmonijka, muzicuta, szájharmonika, armonikele, szájharmonika, suupill, harmoniko, mundharmonika, mondfluitjie, armonika, sinfonia di boka, harmonikë, orglice, mondharmonika, armonica, organ geg, kèn acmônica, harmônica, , munnspill, armónica munspel
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barbequebob
1235 posts
Sep 16, 2010
9:47 AM
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In Spanish, harmonica is known as armonica (basically leave out the letter H).
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nacoran
2735 posts
Sep 16, 2010
10:46 AM
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I tried posting a list of all the Google translations once, but the forum doesn't support many foreign characters. I ended up taking a screen capture, but that made it so you couldn't cut and paste them in YouTube as text. Here is a link to the file though. If you cut and paste them into YouTube you get whole different sets of videos. You could also put them in hot words for any videos you post, to make it easier for people in other countries to find your stuff. There is a thread around here somewhere where I posted some of the videos I found. Iranian, Greek, Japanese... fun stuff.
Words for Harmonica
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bluesharper
151 posts
Sep 16, 2010
11:25 AM
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Organ Béil- Mouth Organ
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Oisin
667 posts
Sep 16, 2010
12:37 PM
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SWineophone...in ireland. No idea why.
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asilve3
111 posts
Sep 16, 2010
12:41 PM
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the word for harmonica in hebrew is pronounced Mah-poo-heet
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