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314.1: Instrument with strings parallel to the string bearer 314.12: Instrument has a resonator 314.122: Instrument has a resonator made from slats (box zithers) These instruments may be classified with a suffix, based on how the strings are caused to vibrate. 4: Hammers or beaters; 5: Bare hands and fingers; 6: Plectrum; 7: Bowing 71: Using a bow
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.
The kudyapi was only played by men, mainly to accompany their own love songs. The female equivalent was the korlong , a kind of zither made of a single node of bamboo with strings cut from the skin of the bamboo itself, each raised and tuned on two little bridges, and played with both hands like a harp.
Harpist Elaine Christy plays with both hands approaching the strings from either side of the harp; foot pedals (not shown) can change the pitch of specific strings by a half step. The pedal harp is played with the fingertips of the first four fingers (thumb, index, middle and ring fingers).
The cross-strung harp or chromatic double harp is a multi-course harp that has two rows of strings which intersect without touching. While accidentals are played on the pedal harp via the pedals and on the lever harp with levers, the cross-strung harp features two rows so that each of the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale has its own string.
Lisa Lynne is a Celtic harpist, a composer and new-age recording artist. She is a self-proclaimed multi-instrumentalist who has "spent the last eighteen years pursuing her passion for the Celtic harp." Lynne released her first solo albums, starting in 1992, as Lisa Franco on the German label Innovative Communication.
Also, Lisa's saxophone is now gold like during almost every episode instead of light blue, and she is occasionally depicted playing a different instrument (trumpet, harp, etc.). Homer is then shown driving home and discards the stuck uranium rod out the window; it lands in Otto's lap and he eats it.
Most readily identified are American harp guitars with either hollow arms, double necks or harp-like frames for supporting extra bass strings, and European bass guitars (or contraguitars). Other harp guitars feature treble or mid-range floating strings, or various combinations of multiple floating string banks along with a standard guitar neck. [4]