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One-man band; photo by Knox of Athol, Massachusetts, in 1865 Jeff Masin, a one-man band in New York City. A one-man band is a musician who plays a number of instruments simultaneously using their hands, feet, limbs, and various mechanical or electronic contraptions.
A person who plays a pedal harp is called a "harpist"; [61] a person who plays a folk-harp is called a "harper" or sometimes a "harpist"; [62] either may be called a "harp-player", and the distinctions are not strict. A number of instruments that are not harps are none-the-less colloquially referred to as "harps".
Rüdiger Oppermann - (born 1954) - German experimental musician; plays a custom-made clàrsach with 38 gold-plated bronze strings and a special mechanism that allows him to bend notes in a manner akin to blues musicians; Coline-Marie Orliac - (born 1989) - two-time winner of the USA International Harp Competition; Alfredo Rolando Ortiz; David Owen
The instrument had a "superstructure" that reminded him of the "yoke" on the cithara lyre and "enormous ornamental wings" that were remains from the cithara lyre's arms. [11] Under the theory, a neck was constructed between the two arms of the lyre, and then the arms of the lyre became vestigial, as "wings" (on the cittern "buckles"). [9]
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.
The horizontal angular harp has less than 10, and in the illustrations it is sometimes played with a plucker or beater. [6] With vertical angular harps, the musician has both hands free to play the instrument, as the instrument rests against their body. With horizontal ones, the instrument is held under the left arm and played with the right hand.
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 compass of the triple harp is about five octaves, or thirty-seven strings in the principal row, which is on the side played by the right hand, called the bass row. The middle row, which produces the flats and sharps, consists of thirty-four strings; and the treble, or left hand row, numbers twenty-seven strings.