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The pedal harp (also known as the concert harp) is a large and technologically modern harp, designed primarily for use in art music. It may be played solo, as part of a chamber ensemble, or in an orchestra .
While the same woods are generally used, each instrument is to some degree individual in sound from its birth, and gains more individuality as it is played. In the 1960s, Lyon & Healy introduced a smaller lever harp, the Troubadour, a 36-string harp marketed to beginners with rent-to-buy options and group classes. This harp stands 65.5 inches ...
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.
George Morley registered his harp making, tuning, and repair business at 95 High St, White Chapel, London, in 1817. [2] His brother, Charles Morley (1796–1858), entered into partnership with him in 1820. [3] A single-action pedal harp dated around 1810 in the Henry Ford Museum is believed to be the work of George Morley. [1]
A lifelong musician, Woods began playing pedal (concert) harp in college after walking into the harp room at the University of Redlands in Southern California and asking for lessons. She continued to study pedal harp after receiving her bachelor's degree, but upon discovering and purchasing a Celtic harp, dedicated her life to making Celtic ...
John Egan, a pedal harp maker in Dublin, developed a new type of harp which had gut strings and semitone mechanisms like a reduced version of a single-action pedal harp; it was small and curved like the historical cláirseach or Irish harp, but its strings were of gut and the soundbox was much lighter. [57]
Aoyama Harp (青山ハープ, Aoyama Hāpu) is a Japanese manufacturer of pedal (concert) harps and folk (lever) harps. Founded as the Aoyama Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company by Jitarō Aoyama in 1897 in Fukui , later generations of the family began the commercial manufacture of folk harps in the 1960s. [ 1 ]
A Salvi double-action concert harp. Salvi is one of the most important manufacturers of high-quality harps. [1] About 90 employees make about 2,000 harps a year from spruce and maple wood, about half of which are concert (double action) harps, and the remaining lever and electroacoustic harps.