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Ancient vase paintings often depict – almost always in the hands of women – various types of harps. Names found in written sources include pektis, trigonos, magadis, sambuca, epigonion. These names could denote instruments of this type. Unlike the lyres, the harp was rarely used in Greece. It was seen as an "outside instrument" from the Orient.
Epigonion, a 40 stringed instrument in ancient Greece thought to have been a harp; Kantele, a traditional Finnish and Karelian zither-like instrument; Konghou, name shared by an ancient Chinese harp and a modern re-adaption; Kora, a west-African folk-instrument, intermediate between a harp and a lute
In ancient Indian times, vina was used to name bowed harps and lutes and later to stick zithers. [42] Names of arched harps included the fingerplucked chitra vīṇā with seven strings, the vipanchi vīṇā with nine strings (plucked with a plectrum) and the mattakokila vīṇā (a harp or possibly board zither) with 21 strings.
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 ...
Epigonion Greek harp, circa 430 B.C. This style of harp is not named in artworks and has also been called trigonon by modern researchers. The epigonion (Greek: ἐπιγόνιον) was an ancient stringed instrument, possibly a Greek harp mentioned in Athenaeus (183 AD), probably a psaltery.
The original sambuca is generally supposed to have been a small triangular ancient Greek harp of shrill tone., [2] probably identical with Phoenician: sabecha and Imperial Aramaic: סַבְּכָא, romanized: sabbǝkhā, the Greek form being σαμβύκη or σαμβύχη [3] or σαβύκη.
The Lyres of Ur or Harps of Ur is a group of four string instruments excavated in a fragmentary condition at the Royal Cemetery at Ur in Iraq from 1922 onwards. They date back to the Early Dynastic III Period of Mesopotamia , between about 2550 and 2450 BC, making them the world's oldest surviving stringed instruments. [ 1 ]
The Celtic harp is a triangular frame harp ... Irish Harp" from County Cork. The names of the components ... conducted into ancient playing ...