I found a jaw harp in my postbox
I ordered it on Ebay, it was delivered to my hovel today and since I opened the package I haven't been able to put it down.

Simply put, a jaw harp is the retarded inbred half-cousin of the harmonica. It's a metal bar, curved into a bell shape with a flexible tongue in the middle. You put it against your teeth, flick the twanger and move your tongue and throat to make a deep droning sound that has been likened to the noise a frying pan makes when it hits a human head. Using your voice creatively, you can play all kinds of songs - like that old favourite, "twangy twang twang BUZZ twang", or even "twang twang twangtwang click OUCHMYFUCKINTEETH". Today, I learned how to play "twang," the song that won the Russian Hillbilly Classic three years ago.

Best buy I ever made, actually. It sounds better than Jose Gonzalez.

EDIT: YouTube video is now up here

Length? 53mm and twangily flexible.
(Tiktock Beating off flamers with a shitty stick, Tue 11 Nov 2008, 23:55, 10 replies)

No way!
You cannot be serious!
(wordsfromlee you cannot be serious!, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 0:31, closed)

I'm as serious
as a bulldozer in Jerusalem.

Too soon?
(Tiktock Beating off flamers with a shitty stick, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 10:32, closed)

Ah yes...
"twang twang twangtwang click OUCHMYFUCKINTEETH"

An old favourite, I know it well.

And do you know "twang twoing twingatwong ZZZZZZZZ AAARGHMYLIPSMYLIPSMYLIPSAREVIBRATINGFUCKITTICKLES"?
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 0:40, closed)

Coincidentally,
the sheet music was in the box. It's a bit hard to read, all the notes are exactly the same.
(Tiktock Beating off flamers with a shitty stick, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 10:31, closed)

Are they
what were called Jew's Harps in less enlightened times?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 12 Nov 2008, 7:11, closed)

That's the bunny.
No one knows why they are called that, though it is appropriate (me being a Red Sea Pedestrian and all). It may be because they sound like the droning hum of a thousand very old men mumbling in a language they don't know.
(Tiktock Beating off flamers with a shitty stick, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 10:30, closed)

Can you play the theme to A Fist Full of Dollars yet?
(davywavy, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 10:32, closed)

Not yet, I'm working on it.
But I can play Tool's "Lateralus" and Dueling Banjos.
(Tiktock Beating off flamers with a shitty stick, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 10:57, closed)

Yup
I bought one of them a short while ago also, and in addition to the melodies you mentioned, I can play: "Twang..TwangTwangTWANNNGCLACK!!!Jesus, and actual PIECE of tooth just flew out of my mouth!!! You bastard"
You'll find it's an easy tune to learn.
(Lump, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 15:16, closed)

Sounds like a good tune.
I'll add it to my repertoire, thanks for the tip :) just figured out Enjoy The Silence, woo.
(Tiktock Beating off flamers with a shitty stick, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 22:06, closed)