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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).
Arched harp with a boat-shaped hollow body surrounded by a skin membrane, with ten soundholes and traversed and punctured by one or two sticks to which the string is attached; [5] [14] shovel harp: Ancient Egypt: 322.11 Shovel-shaped arched harp [10] vina: Ancient India: 322.11 Arched harp (vina now refers to a stick zither, 311.222) [15] Yazh ...
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"
Arched harp, 5 strings, tuning pegs, boat shaped resonator. [59] Komba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Budu people. Arched harp, resembles kundi [60] Kondu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zande people. Arched harp. [61] Kunda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mangbetu people. Arched harp, resembles kundi. [62] Kundé, Chad, Sara Gambaye ...
The Adungu, also called the Endongo or Ennanga or Bow harp in English, is a stringed musical instrument of the Acholi people of Northern Uganda [1] and the Alur people of northwestern Uganda. It is an arched harp of varying dimensions, ranging from seven to ten strings or more. [ 2 ]
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 Burmese harp is classified as an arched horizontal harp since the resonator body is more horizontal as opposed to the Western harp, which has a vertical resonator.The main parts of the harp are the body, the long curved neck, carved out of the root of a tree, and a string bar running down the center of the top of the body.
Sugonghu (hangul: 수공후; hanja: 豎 箜 篌; literally "vertical harp") photo This is the same harp as the shu konghou and looks like vertical harps from ancient Assyria. [ 1 ] Wagonghu (hangul: 와공후; hanja: 臥 箜 篌 ; literally "lying down harp") The wagonhu today is designated for arched harps that have the appearance of the ...