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Everything that's music - About the Jew's 
harp

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Jew' harp making is the most important profession 
on this globe, probably in the whole galaxy.

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Not only because this small instrument contains 
the sound of all the instruments,

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but bacause one can make the integrated connection 
with it.

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It plays in your mouth, plucked with your 
hand and

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resonates the ancient sound that only shamans, 
rainmakers, transendent people could really 
feel.

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Jew’s harp has preserved its ancient character.

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In 1991 in Yakutia, Sibera, thousands of 
Jew’s harp (khomus) players

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and spirituals leaders gathered for the International 
Jew’s harp Conference.

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I think the world  of Jew’s harp players 
is a separate world,

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a bit like the freemason. A closed, insrutable 
world

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that requires an absolute abstract way of 
thinking.

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The people who devote their lives to the 
Jew’s harp

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as performers are different existance than 
e.g. a viola artist.

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They think different. Those people who have 
appeared in my life as costumers,

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collagues, players all had special common 
spirit,

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that is not necesserily palpable with other 
musical instrument players.

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In the first phase I bend the frame, so that 
it remains central.

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The soul of the instrument, the spring is 
still missing.

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The steel spring is selected and precisely 
cut

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according to the tuning of the Jew’s harp.

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When it’s cut - here it is- you have a spring

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that is needed for an Aztec Mini Jew’s harp 
tuned to G#.

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Seeing these parts separate, they look insignificant,

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useless scrap of steel. But when they are 
inosculated,

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the instrument comes alive and gives you 
such music that captivates one’s heart.

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It is impossible to learn  the Jew’s harp 
perfectly.

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The parameters of the  instrument I’ve described 
might sound paranormal,

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but according to my 20 years of experience 
I think

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it is absolutely inscrutable, just like a 
cat.

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They made bamboo Jew’s harps in Polinesia, 
but I’ve created a steel version.

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These two Jew’s harps belong to the Aztec 
Mini type, but they have different sound.

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This type is called “Choir”.

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We talk about a small instrument that may 
mean a lot to someone.

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Not only because this instrument has always 
been with us from very early ages,

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but it can always be at your reach, you can 
play it at any time.

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It is one of the lightest instruments, but 
can play from the depths of your heart.