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The frame harp was widely used by minstrels through Europe, right up the the 15th century. The modern double-action, or concert harp, with seven pedals was invented in 1810. Since then the harp has undegone few changes, and is now a regular member of the symphony and opera orchestras.
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library.thinkquest.org/C001468F/library/instruments/str...
library.thinkquest.org/C001468F/library/instruments/strings/harp.htm
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Harp strings can be of nylon (sometimes copper-wound), gut, or wire. The larger harp in the drawing at right is a concert harp; the smaller one is a folk harp. Lydia plays a concert harp. Who invented the harp?
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www.theweddingsite.com/lydia/harps.pdf
www.theweddingsite.com/lydia/harps.pdf
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Around 1810 a harp was invented that permits the player to use pedals to change to any key during the playing of a piece. That invention and subsequent improvements have led to the modern pedal harp like the one I play.
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www.harpspectrum.org/pedal/wooster.shtml
www.harpspectrum.org/pedal/wooster.shtml
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Harps were most likely independently invented in many parts of the world in remote prehistory. It is often said that the harp's origins may lie in the sound of a plucked hunter's bow string; the converse is considered possible. A type of ha...
http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/Who_invented_a_harp
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The harp is one of the oldest musical instruments in the world. The earliest harps were developed from the hunting bow. The wall paintings of ancient Egyptian tombs dating from as early as 3000 B.C. show an instrument that closely resembles the hunter's bow, without the pillar that we find in modern harps.
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web.singnet.com.sg/~harpist/history.htm
web.singnet.com.sg/~harpist/history.htm
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The harp's origins are lost in the Mists of Time ... so misty, in fact, that it is impossible to say when (or where) the first harp-like instruments were invented, what they looked like, or at what point these precursors became the instrument that we call the modern harp.
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midtown.net/dragonwing/col9810.htm
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Jaw harp, then, is not an invented term intended to be politically correct, but is rather a misnomer brought to life by bad scholarship. In its favor, jawharp is a misnomer of a misnomer - a quirky name for a somewhat quirky instrument.
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www.jewsharpguild.org/history.html
www.jewsharpguild.org/history.html
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The harp seemed to be more important to him than the piano. If you look at most of the patent ... He also invented a transposing piano, with a wooden cylindrical soundboard moved by four rollers, so that the strings of the higher or lower notes were struck by the same hammers. This patent must have been in France.
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www.uk-piano.org/history/erard.html
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www.harps.com/harphistoryG.htm
www.harps.com/harphistoryG.htm
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