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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.
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.
Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral music that originated in New England and was later perpetuated and carried on in the American South. The name is derived from The Sacred Harp, a ubiquitous and historically important tunebook printed in shape notes.
The Celtic harp is a triangular frame harp traditional to the Celtic nations of northwest Europe. It is known as cláirseach in Irish, clàrsach in Scottish Gaelic, telenn in Breton and telyn in Welsh.
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 medieval harp refers to various types of harps played throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. The defining features are a three-sided frame (column, harmonic curve, and soundboard) [2] and strings made of wire or gut. The instrument was most popular in Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, and Scandinavia. [2] .
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.
The Nigg stone 790–799 AD carving of a Pictish harp in a 19th-century illustration, minus the top section The harper on the Dupplin Cross, Scotland, circa 800 AD The harper on the Monifeith 4 Pictish sculpture, Scotland, 700–900 AD The earliest depiction of an Irish harp, c.1000—1100 AD. Depicted on the side of the reliquary shrine of St. Máedóc or Mogue of Ferns, County Wexford, Ireland.
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.