But by that time, no one listened to the humstrum of his one-man band. From Wordnik.com. [Your opportunity to help make New Jersey safer from illegal handgun violence] Reference
Why the devil don't you sell that humstrum of yours, that harp, I mean, and raise the wind?. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
Jew's-harp, the marrow-bones and cleaver, the humstrum or hurdy-gurdy. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765] Reference
Bonnell Thornton had just published a burlesque Ode on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient British musick, viz. the salt-box, the Jew's-harp, the marrow-bones and cleaver, the humstrum or hurdy-gurdy, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
All this time she was turning and twisting the cloth — no, ’twont do, I’ll even go and return Madam Fussock her cloth, and give my young lady a lesson on her humstrum, do you understand music? — a little. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale] Reference
A humstrum, any where all round. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect] Reference
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