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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"
The modern English word harp comes from the Old English hearpe; akin to Old High German harpha. [63] A person who plays a pedal harp is called a "harpist"; [64] a person who plays a folk-harp is called a "harper" or sometimes a "harpist"; [65] either may be called a "harp-player", and the distinctions are not strict.
Arched harp, 5 strings. May no longer be in use. [43] Ekidongo, Ekinongo, Uganda, Nyro people. Arched harp, resembles ennanga. Also 3-string musical bow of Nkole people. [44] Ekihato, Uganda, Konjo people. Arched harp. [45] Ennanga, Uganda, Ganda people. Arched harp with tuning pegs or tuning rings. [46] [47] [48] Enanga is also a name for a ...
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]
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.
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.