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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.
Double chromatic harp, built ca. 1890 by Henry Greenway; one of two extant instruments of this type, (photo: National Music Museum) Henry Greenway (Birmingham, England, 1833 - St. Louis, Missouri, 1903) was an English-born American harp maker. He created a type of chromatic cross-strung harp displaying X
A French cross-strung chromatic harp. Chromatic double and triple harps have one row of strings that is tuned pentatonically to allow for chromatic playing. These harps exist both as parallel chromatic harps or as cross-strung harps .
Cross-strung chromatic harp. The cross-strung harp has one row of diatonic strings, and a separate row of chromatic notes, angled in an "X" shape so that the row which can be played by the right hand at the top may be played by the left hand at the bottom, and vice versa.
Arched harp with a curving neck and large soundholes, made from two sticks [12] [13] shoulder harp: Ancient Egypt: 322.11 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
1st position (or "straight harp"): Ionian mode. Playing the harmonica as it was intended, in its main major key. On a diatonic, starting note is hole 1 blow. On a C-chromatic, starting hole is the same, resulting in C major scale. This is the main position used for playing folk music on the harmonica. 2nd position (or "cross harp"): Mixolydian ...
The Pro Harp was another model that was in Hohner's handmade line of harmonicas, and was later adapted to the modular system. [9] The Cross Harp was a nearly identical model to the Pro Harp with the exception of a wood comb and slightly thicker original reed plates. The black coverplate coating was greblon.
The three-row so-called "chromatic nyckelharpa", with three melody strings tuned A1 – C1 – G, one drone tuned at C (from the highest to the lowest string) that is only touched occasionally, and 12 resonance strings (one for each step of the chromatic scale). Kontrabasharpa ("double bass harp") – most popular during the 17th and 18th ...