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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] Arched harps are probably the most ancient form of the harp, evolving from the musical bow. [7] The first bowed harps appeared around 3000 B.C. in Iran and Mesopotamia and then in Egypt. [7]
Bow harps, a type of arched harp, form a half-oval or half-circle shape without sharp angles. The Egyptians had tall vertical bow harps and smaller harps held horizontally. The images of small bow harps in Greek paintings are similar to the smaller Egyptian bow harps or the modern African enanga. The Greeks used the tall vertical bow-harp, but ...
Arched harps are found in Southeast Asia, East Africa, and elsewhere, and are historically strongly associated with Ancient Egypt and India. Two categories of arched harps exist, though are not distinguished in the Hornbostel-Sachs system: those in which only one stick constitutes both the neck and the string holder of the instrument and those ...
The ancient veena is an early Indian arched harp, not to be confused with the modern Indian veena which is a type of lute or stick zither. Names of specific forms of the arched harp include the chitra vīṇā with seven strings, the vipanchi vīṇā with nine strings and the mattakokila vīṇā a harp or possibly board zither with 21 strings ...
All harps have a neck, resonator, and strings, frame harps or triangular harps have a pillar at their long end to support the strings, while open harps, such as arch harps and bow harps, do not. Modern harps also vary in techniques used to extend the range and chromaticism of the strings (e.g., adding sharps and flats).
The Burmese harp is a very ancient instrument. [9] Musical researchers theorize that the arched harp came to Burma from Mesopotamia by way of India. [10] Mesopotamia has some of the oldest images of arched harps, including pictographs from circa 3000 B.C. [11]
In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, arched harps are designated as '322.11'. 322.11 : Instrument has a neck that curves away from the resonator ( arched harp ) Pages in category "Arched harps"
Ancient musical instruments evolved into many variations, such as lutes, zithers and arched harps. [1] The many regional designs have different names such as the Rudra veena, the Saraswati veena, the Vichitra veena and others. [4] [5] The North Indian rudra veena, used in Hindustani classical music, is a stick zither. [1]