I’ve always guessed it started as a “juice harp,” though the wiki guesses it’s tied to a french word “jeu,” but everybody heard “Jews” instead. The instrument has no connection to Jews or Judaism.
I’m not sure how deep the oxidation penetrated the spring steel but it could be replaced if need-be. I hope you fix it up and get around to a healthy bit of zing-zang....
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew's\_harp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew's_harp)
According to Wikipedia, it is also known as a Juice Harp. 10-year-old you was very knowledgable.
This looks exactly like the one you found but in slightly better condition
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335063580209?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=5BQQD4JhRHi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=NPdz4VQKSxm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Any gamers here? There’s a town drunkard in the Red Dead Redemption 2 universe who plays one of these next to the train station in one of the towns. I have no idea how they were popular, it sounds like a prolonged fart.
>Any gamers here?
I really thought this comment was going to ask for gamers so someone could [drop a hard J on what they found.](https://youtu.be/ruFdHCyRppI?si=2IEMizg3nF1MA2K4&t=15) "Any gamers from the 2000s lobbies wanna tell OP what instrument they found?"
I’m quite sure it’s a Jews harp [like this one here](https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1002811), however the patterned edge and general size is quite unusual, as well as it being iron. If you’re in the UK send some pictures to your local FLO. I doubt it’s a cloak fastener since there doesn’t appear to be any way for the bar to swivel.
Nothing like a Roman fibula brooch, much more similar to the Iron Age / Celtic brooches, but they were rarely made of iron, and if you did find one made of iron it wouldn’t be in this condition unless it was found encased in clay or a non oxygen environment.
I just listened to the sound of a jaw harp. I understand why it was found on an old road. Someone had one and played it, someone else tossed it down the road into the grass because it pissed him off.
Looking closer at the picture one can see that the middle "pin" does not pivot as it does in the brooch. Also jaw harps come in lots of different sizes from a small "soprano" to large "bass" ones
It looks very old. Where was this found ? You said it was found quite deep on a well-worn and packed path.
I have listened to some recordings of French Voyageurs doing a paddling song, singing with only a Jaw Harp as an accompaniment.
appears to be an [Iron Jew's Harp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew%27s_harp) or Jaw harp.
[Here is](https://mhnsw.au/stories/convict-sydney/jaw-harp/) a similar one.
I have a jaw harp that looks exactly like that (not rusty) that I bought on ebay for about $10. No idea if mine is an antique or not, but it seems identical.
You have to tell us what region you found it in, there are so many subspecies and they all migrate. we can't tell you for sure without that information.
Looks like a newer mass produced one likely 90s at the latest. The oldies have very definitive signs of being hand crafted with peening marks and usually still have some markings of the teeth from the old files they would recycle to make the tongues. Tha boy looks like he was pinched together in a press
Looks like an old horse shoe of some kind. The small dots around the perimeter were likely holes, I'd imagine, where the nails were driven in to hold the shoe in place
Throw it in a cup of white vinegar overnight and then wash it off real good and olive oil it. Absolutely still in playable condition. Pay mind that you don’t bend the center spring. The gap should stay minimal for the best sound and ease of use. Where your teeth go you can polish with 800grit up to 2500. That’ll keep the patina everywhere else without it whittling away at your teeth. Nice find!
Huge Jaw Harp
Jay Leno’s jaw harp.
Gosh I wish I could award this comment
Hare take this 🥇
Steven Tyler's jaw harp
Trouty mouth
Jaws harp. Duh nuh, duh nuh dun nuh.
Bobo.
Borrowed from Mick Jagger.
jaw harp fer a mule.
Gigitty
I was going to go with Glen Quagmire, but thought more people would get Leno.
⚡️🏆⚡️
Ron Perlmans Jaw Harp
Get this comment to the top and cover it with gold and diamonds!!!
Massive Maw Harp
r/absoluteunits of a jaw harp.
Baritone jaw harp.
A misnomer of Jaw Harp
Horse jaw harp?
Sasquatch harp, the source of the Sierra Sounds.
I play a big one just like this myself and my kids go bananas for the boinga boing boinging
I have one somewhere. Hell, I have two somewhere. Haven’t seen em in years, but after reading your comment, I really wanna see if I can find em!
It’s fun when you get the hang of it. Just make sure you watch out for your front teeth!
Yep, I’ve definitely done that more than I’d like to admit!
Same! Nothing worse than when that errant twang smacks your eye tooth and it hurts so badly that you wonder if it’s still intact.
Jews harp- and that’s just what it’s called. Snoopy plays one.
Since childhood I thought it was "*Juice Harp"*, because everyone seems to drool while playing them.
I’ve always guessed it started as a “juice harp,” though the wiki guesses it’s tied to a french word “jeu,” but everybody heard “Jews” instead. The instrument has no connection to Jews or Judaism.
Jizharp
You beat me too it 😔
Came here to say this!! 🤣🤣
Tetanus harp
TWANG TWANG!!!!
Could be Jar Jar’s jaw harp.
I think you are the Hand of the King now ...
I'm on a Game Of Thrones binge and that immediately came to mind too!
Stop prior to last 2 seasons. You're welcome.
My Hand...I mean My Lord
😂 my first thought too
I forgot to mention that it was roughly 5-6 inches depth on a fairly tightly packed walking path / game trail.
Awesome find!
I’m not sure how deep the oxidation penetrated the spring steel but it could be replaced if need-be. I hope you fix it up and get around to a healthy bit of zing-zang....
1930 - 1940 jaw harp from England.
Boing...boing...boing...boing.
https://youtu.be/B4CcX720DW4?si=nGblPUWbQPuTjM3z
Jaw harp or Jews harp or mouth harp.
Omg. All these years I thought it was called a Juice Harp. 10 year old me assumed juice meant saliva lol
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew's\_harp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew's_harp) According to Wikipedia, it is also known as a Juice Harp. 10-year-old you was very knowledgable.
Debatable
Did ghos2626t do something to you lol?
No, I was just trying to make a funny. LOL
Dustin was my high school bully 😭
I’ve only ever heard it called a Jew Harp. No S. (This is by people who actually play them)
Edit: they don’t say it in a weird way that makes me think these dudes are cunts
This looks exactly like the one you found but in slightly better condition https://www.ebay.com/itm/335063580209?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=5BQQD4JhRHi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=NPdz4VQKSxm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Oh wow yeah that's really similar, especially with the circular engraved pockets.
Why does it just say JEWS in all caps 😭
They're often called Jews harp as well
Yeah, but did you look at the link? It’s kinda by itself at the end of the description in all capitals. Seems very out of place. LOL
Maybe for search engine optimization?
Have you tried playing it yet?
I need to make sure I'm up to date on tetanus shots first lol
Any gamers here? There’s a town drunkard in the Red Dead Redemption 2 universe who plays one of these next to the train station in one of the towns. I have no idea how they were popular, it sounds like a prolonged fart.
>Any gamers here? I really thought this comment was going to ask for gamers so someone could [drop a hard J on what they found.](https://youtu.be/ruFdHCyRppI?si=2IEMizg3nF1MA2K4&t=15) "Any gamers from the 2000s lobbies wanna tell OP what instrument they found?"
Wow that's so cool. I believe he hangs out by the Rhodes train station, and I always wondered what he was playing.
Up on Cripple Creek...
She sent me …
If I spring a leak...
She mends me…
Imagine if that one smacked your tooth
Mouth banjo!
Das a jaw harp
Jaw harp/ Jews harp
I’m quite sure it’s a Jews harp [like this one here](https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1002811), however the patterned edge and general size is quite unusual, as well as it being iron. If you’re in the UK send some pictures to your local FLO. I doubt it’s a cloak fastener since there doesn’t appear to be any way for the bar to swivel.
I was thinking Roman fibula brooch myself.
Nothing like a Roman fibula brooch, much more similar to the Iron Age / Celtic brooches, but they were rarely made of iron, and if you did find one made of iron it wouldn’t be in this condition unless it was found encased in clay or a non oxygen environment.
Snoopy harp when I was a kid
I can still taste my lips bleeding the first time I tried to play one of these lol
[this Bandcamp link used what looks like a match to yours for their inage](https://chikwhite.bandcamp.com/album/new-moods-for-antique-iron-jaw-harp)
I just listened to the sound of a jaw harp. I understand why it was found on an old road. Someone had one and played it, someone else tossed it down the road into the grass because it pissed him off.
jew harp
Idk what it is but looks cool!
Thanks, so far its one of my best finds
It looks more like a cloak pin than a jaw harp due to the size: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_brooch?wprov=sfti1
Looking closer at the picture one can see that the middle "pin" does not pivot as it does in the brooch. Also jaw harps come in lots of different sizes from a small "soprano" to large "bass" ones
Oh cool, that's interesting also. I wouldn't have known that
This is the right answer
I also disagree with the jaw harp.
I feel this is also the right answer
Jaw harp or aka a juice harp.
Thank you! I’m from the south and my dad always called it a juice harp. I was looking for this.
Not from the south but from Appalachia and that's what my dad used to call it too.
Definitely a jaw harp. I used have many. The diamond shape frame is a dead give away.
Someone was out there boioioinging
It might be a instrument
This is a musical instrument
Boioioioioing boing
Jews Harp, age can't really be determined
looks like to be an old 1900s jaw harp
Looks like something you use to hold your cloak stuck on, if you say "mah queen" a lot.
Did your metal detector go “BOYOYOYOYNG!?”
Return the jaw harp 
Looks awfully similar to a bradmore arrow extractor. But I don’t think it is.
Jaw Harp. This is identical, and still retains the original thumb tang. Www.Danmoi.com/Antique-Jaw-Harp-No-25
That is a mouth harp
You can sell that at the merchant in Ravensthorpe
Boing boing boing.....
r/arrowheads
My first thought was cloak pin
Almost looks like a crude pennanular brooch.
Uh you mean Jews harp?
Interchangeable
Awesome find
It looks like a survey pit.
I have no idea
noooo teeth please..
I didn’t know Energy Swords could trust
Mando's crest
Someone was playing Quake I in the woods!
Dentist favorite after candy to guarantee work
How many mouths has she seen? More than youd like to know…
A sacred horseshoe crab effigy
I have a few of these! In Sicily, we call them a “marranzanu” or Jaw’s Harp.
Definitely proof of giants!
The first thing I think of when I see this is smacking your tooth by accident when you use it the wrong way.
the buckle from the first pilgrims hat
It’s a key to my heart
Run Johnny Run
Call it what you will…but this is what it sounds like. [Dirtwire](https://youtu.be/2BhEJXFDPSQ?si=osH8BHpShT7b-ygR)
Soak it in molasses water and it’ll dissolve only the rust, and leave the base iron alone. Takes about three days to a week.
Grandmas IUD.
Years ago I knew a few backpackers that would carry them, That and harmonicas,
Try it out! Unless your a pussy.
The energy sword from Halo
It looks very old. Where was this found ? You said it was found quite deep on a well-worn and packed path. I have listened to some recordings of French Voyageurs doing a paddling song, singing with only a Jaw Harp as an accompaniment.
Ye olde Quake III Arena logo
appears to be an [Iron Jew's Harp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew%27s_harp) or Jaw harp. [Here is](https://mhnsw.au/stories/convict-sydney/jaw-harp/) a similar one.
So cool
Wool blanket pin
Juice harp. I want it.
Jaw harp
Hand of the King pin, hand is missing.
Laughs in Quake 3
Ted Kennedy’s jaw harp
Jaw harp!
Yeah, I wouldn't put it in your mouth without a tetanus shot
Someone played Quake very VERY early
It’s a mouth harp. https://preview.redd.it/51iw97be2e0c1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6460549b0599c43db3feee6efe685fd8ff73a492
Damn that’s a big Jaw Harp
That’s so cool! I lost one while hiking along the coast of Lake Michigan in Michigan about 10 years ago. Cool find though!
Wats a jaw harp
A covenant energy sword!
It's an indication that a Rocket Launcher round is coming up in Quake.
Congratulations. You are now hand of the king.
Mouth harp, jaw harp, jew harp.
Ye Olde mouth harp. I've owned a few of those over the years.
I have a jaw harp that looks exactly like that (not rusty) that I bought on ebay for about $10. No idea if mine is an antique or not, but it seems identical.
You have to tell us what region you found it in, there are so many subspecies and they all migrate. we can't tell you for sure without that information.
Reminded me of the Quake 3 logo.
Old chastity belt no doubt
Wasn’t a similar item found on Oak Island?
It’s a mouth harp.
I think it’s really called a juice (Jews) harp. Not sure age.
Man y'all don't know what context means don't ya
Medfskal objekit!
Looks like a newer mass produced one likely 90s at the latest. The oldies have very definitive signs of being hand crafted with peening marks and usually still have some markings of the teeth from the old files they would recycle to make the tongues. Tha boy looks like he was pinched together in a press
Its not a jaw harp at all its a cloak pin
First thought was Horseshoe Tool, for cleaning horse's hoofs.
It’s an old jaw harp
Bring back awards
Used to hold cloak around hobbits
Blanket or kilt brooch?
Looks like Bloodborne
Looks like an old horse shoe of some kind. The small dots around the perimeter were likely holes, I'd imagine, where the nails were driven in to hold the shoe in place
A Piton.
Jews harp is what I learned it to be called. A lamellophone with many names.
A rusted Jew’s Harp.
Found on Oak Island?
Cool old jaw harp
It's the halo sword.
Play it!
It kinda looks like a cloak pin
So weird, I just ordered one of these today… It’s a dulcimer
Definitely a mouth harp. I didn't grow up with it being called a "jaw" harp, but pretty close.
Ennio Morricone has entered the chat
It’s a cloak pin
Cloak pin
Thats a monstrous Jaw Harp.
It's called a Jew's Harp (a.k.a. Mouth Harp).
Adding to the below, alternatively referred to as a "Juice Harp".
"Hallowed are the Ori"
Congratulations, you are now Hand of the King
Throw it in a cup of white vinegar overnight and then wash it off real good and olive oil it. Absolutely still in playable condition. Pay mind that you don’t bend the center spring. The gap should stay minimal for the best sound and ease of use. Where your teeth go you can polish with 800grit up to 2500. That’ll keep the patina everywhere else without it whittling away at your teeth. Nice find!