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The modern English word harp comes from the Old English hearpe; akin to Old High German harpha. [62] A person who plays a pedal harp is called a "harpist"; [63] a person who plays a folk-harp is called a "harper" or sometimes a "harpist"; [64] either may be called a "harp-player", and the distinctions are not strict.
See Rotte for harp lookalike of same period. The earliest drawings of triangular-frame harps appear in the Utrecht Psalter, written and illustrated in the early 9th century from a scriptorium in Rheims. [19] Ten of the illustrations show figures holding harp-like instruments, and in six of them the forepillar is clearly shown.
The Celtic harp is a triangular frame harp traditional to the Celtic nations of northwest Europe. ... even as the old Gaelic harp tradition was dying out, ...
It is an early Irish harp or wire-strung cláirseach. It is dated to the 14th or 15th century and, along with the Queen Mary Harp and the Lamont Harp, is the oldest [1] of three surviving medieval harps from the region. [2] The harp was used as a model for the coat of arms of Ireland and for the trade-mark of Guinness stout.
Cycladic culture harp player, 2800–2700 B.C. Harps probably evolved from the most ancient type of stringed instrument, the musical bow.In its simplest version, the sound body of the bowed harp and its neck, which grows out as an extension, form a continuous bow similar to an up-bowed bow, with the strings connecting the ends of the bow.
The bowed harp was first used in the Old Kingdom, in the 4th dynasty (2723–2563 B.C.) and appears in the feast scenes of the mastabas of Saqqara and Giza. This type of harp is reminiscent of a modern spade: its small, flat, pointed body is joined by a slightly curved, stout, long neck, like a spade blade.
See: Telyn harps The harp is the national instrument of Wales, with an unbroken line of harpers reaching back to at least the 11th century.Little is known of the origins of these early instruments, although small details such as poems are recorded, decrying the use of the new-fangled gut strings, as opposed to the traditional strings of plaited horse hair.
It is the first instrument from the lyre family mentioned in the Old Testament. Its exact identification is unclear, but in the modern day it is generally translated as "harp" or "lyre", [13]: 440 and associated with a type of lyre depicted in Israelite imagery, particularly the Bar Kochba coins.