Editing Jew's harp (section)

===Russian music===
In Russia, the instrument has its own brand called ''vargan''.<ref name="t301">{{cite book | last1=Abrashev | first1=B. | last2=Radevsky | first2=A. | last3=Gadjev | first3=V. | title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments: From All Eras and Regions of the World | publisher=Könemann | year=2000 | isbn=978-3-8290-6079-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Yw7AQAAIAAJ | page=136}}</ref> A Jew's harp was excavated in a 9th-century burial mound in Idelbayev, [[Bashkortostan]].<ref>[https://musark.no/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Thesis-intro.pdf Jew's Harps in European Archaeology]</ref>
The Jew's harp was banned in the USSR during the regime of [[Joseph Stalin]] due to its closeness to [[Shamanism]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://russia-ic.com/culture_art/music/939/#.WHCF67GZOHs | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620150926/http://russia-ic.com/culture_art/music/939/#.WHCF67GZOHs | archive-date=20 June 2015 | title=Vargan, the Russian Jew's-harp :: Music :: Culture & Arts :: Russia-InfoCentre }}</ref>