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This article lists notable classical harpists by type of harp in an alphabetical order. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern, [3] Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr., [4] Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr., [5] and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr., [6] among others, 4 August 1914 – 24 October 1997) was a German-born American typesetter who held the record for the longest personal name ever used.
After the First World War, the demand for new pedal harps had dropped to the point where John Sebastian began to concentrate exclusively on harp repair and the making of small, Irish-style harps. [3] John Sebastian Morley was the founding president of the United Kingdom Harp Association.
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.
Glass harp: Ireland Pitched 133.2 Idiophone Specifically a friction Idiophone Glockenspiel: Pitched 111.212 Idiophone Goblet drum: Unpitched 211.261 Membranophone Generic type by construction, see also individual instrument names Goema: South Africa Unpitched Membranophone Gong: Brunei China Indonesia Japan Korea Malaysia Myanmar Tibet Vietnam ...
England. Developed and patented in 1895. Acme is the trade name of J Hudson & Co of Birmingham, England. It was sometimes known as "the cyclist's road clearer" unpitched percussion: whistle Afoxé: idiophones: 112.122: Edo (Nigeria), Brazil. Afro Brazilian musical instrument. unpitched percussion: bell Agogô: idiophones: 111.242: Yoruba ...
Open harps include the arched harp and the angular harp. Frame harps are closed harps. [3] The harp is a composite chordophone instrument; it belongs to those stringed instruments that have a distinguishable string-carrying neck and a body that receives the vibrations of the strings and emits them as sound, and its strings are stretched between the neck and the body.
It differs from the Bohemian Harp in that it is a cross between a keyed harp and a pedal harp, using a single pedal (unlike most modern pedal harps). This pedal mechanism was created in 1720, by Bavarian harp maker Jacob Hochbrucker, from Mindelheim. It also has a larger range than the Bohemian Harp, using six octaves. [10]