Vol. IV, No 4. ] The Jew’s Harp in Assam. 237 
LN.S.] 
have been told that the instrument is well known i in Tibet 
over the fire, cargoes in company with a little Lepcha gir 
Dolly was fond of ring me ‘eitistle airs and each me a 
Tibetan Jew’s harp with which, and coarse ‘obaae which I 
smoked out of a Tibetan brass pipe, I wiled away the dark 
evenings. In a footnote it is stated that “this instrument (which 
is common in Tibet) is identical with the European, except that 
the tongue is produced behind the bow in a strong steel spike, by 
which the instrument is held firmer to the mouth.” 
r, I think, make. 
of three bamboo ven each of different tone, all of them played 
together held in the left hand, the one above the other, that 
with the highest note at the sors The harp with the deepest note 
is said to give the p’o ka ( p’o skad ) or “ male note,” the middle 
one gives the ding ka or ‘ ‘ niiddle note,” and the sharper note is 
nown as moka or “female note.” Three or four persons fre- 
quently play together in unison, and nearly every girl or woman 
carries a k’api suspended with chevron-shaped carvings and bands 
of a quills. The Chinese of Kan-su call the Jew’s harp 
k’ou 
The Tibetan name is an exact counterpart of the Kan-su one, 
or k’a means “ ssp and pi stands for pi-wang, the t 
stringed banjo (san hsie 
The Pe ar a 8 harp is of iron and very like the one 
used among u 
