called by Bacon jeutrompe, by Beaumont and Fletcher, jew-trump, by Hakluyt, jew's-harp. The best players on
this instrument have been Koch, a Prussian soldier under Frederick the
Great; Kunert, Amstein, and some others.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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