Article: Kulturgeschichte der Maultrommel.

Karl Eulenstein, the last truly great Western European Jew's harp virtuoso, died on 8 January 1890, at the age of 88. Although he had not played the instrument since 1834, he represented an era when the Jew's harp was regarded as something substantially more than a curious folk instrument --so much so, in fact, that Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, now remembered mainly as Beethoven's composition teacher, composed at least seven concernti for Jew's harp, mandora, and string orchestra, of which three (from the years 1769, 1770, and 1771) survive.

With a few notable exceptions (such as the lengthy article by Curt Sachs, "Die Maultrommel: Eine typologische Vorstudie," ...

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