$1k per adult, $500 per kid

[maxwelhse]

I've never actually heard of this particular, possible, ethnic slur before...

and it took, like, 5 posts from "Death Camps" to get here.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

To be fair....certain parts of the country used to call it a jaw harp.

True. Dad always called it a Jew's Harp though. Dad was a little like Archie Bunker.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I've never actually heard of this particular, possible, ethnic slur before...

and it took, like, 5 posts from "Death Camps" to get here.

[video=youtube;VDnio2axqNI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDnio2axqNI[/video]

 

[maxwelhse]

From Wiki:

There are many theories for the origin of the name Jew's harp. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this name appears earliest in Walter Raleigh's Discouerie Guiana in 1596, spelled "Iewes Harp". The "jaw" variant is attested at least as early as 1774[SUP][7][/SUP] and 1809,[SUP][8][/SUP] the "juice" variant appeared only in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

It has also been suggested that the name derives from the French "Jeu-trompe" meaning "toy-trumpet".[SUP][9][/SUP] (Though in the French idiom, if two substantives are joined together, the qualifying noun is invariably the last.)[SUP][10][/SUP]

Both theories—that the name is a corruption of "jaws" or "jeu"—are described by the OED as "baseless and inept". The OED says that, "More or less satisfactory reasons may be conjectured: e.g. that the instrument was actually made, sold, or imported to England by Jews, or purported to be so; or that it was attributed to them, as a good commercial name, suggesting the trumps and harps mentioned in the Bible."

I'm gonna go with not an ethnic slur on this one as it appears that is the original intended marketing name by the original marketeers.