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The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or concerts. Its most common form is triangular in shape and made of wood.
The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, [nb 1] is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame. Despite the colloquial name, the Jew's harp most likely originated in Siberia, specifically in or around the Altai Mountains, and is of Turkic origin.
The harp is a musical instrument. It is the second biggest string instrument in an orchestra. It dates back to 4000 BC when the Egyptians used them in holy places. Christian artists often draw angels playing harps in Heaven. Harps have strings that are tied to the frame, which is usually a triangle made of wood.
Arched harps is a category in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system for musical instruments, a type of harp. [5] . The instrument may also be called bow harp. [6] . With arched harps, the neck forms a continuous arc with the body and has an open gap between the two ends of the arc (open harps). [6]
The harp guitar is a guitar-based stringed instrument generally defined as a "guitar, in any of its accepted forms, with any number of additional unstopped strings that can accommodate individual plucking."
The Wartburg Harp, dating to the late 1300s/early 1400s, is preserved at Wartburg Castle in Eisenbach Germany and is representative of Gothic bray harps used during the late medieval/early Renaissance period.
The psalterion (Greek ψαλτήριον) [7] is a stringed, plucked instrument, an ancient Greek harp.Psalterion was a general word for harps in the latter part of the 4th century B.C. [8] It meant "plucking instrument". [8]In addition to their most important stringed instrument, the seven-stringed lyre, the Greeks also used multi-stringed, finger-plucked [9] instruments: harps.
The Trinity College harp, also known as "Brian Boru's harp", is a medieval musical instrument on display in the long room at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. It is an early Irish harp or wire-strung cláirseach .
Harp, stringed instrument in which the resonator, or belly, is perpendicular, or nearly so, to the plane of the strings. Each string produces one note, the gradation of string length from short to long corresponding to that from high to low pitch. Learn more about harps, including their history.
Harps can be classified in different ways based on their size, use, and historical factors. This discussion on harps is organized based on their typical use and construction. Large, often elegant, harps seen in professional symphonies and orchestras. This type of harp uses pedals to enable the...