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...
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harp with only one row of strings is called a single-course harp. A diatonic double-strung harp consists of two rows of diatonic strings one on either side...
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triple harp is one such instrument, and two other instruments employing this technique are the cross-strung harp and the inline chromatic harp. The cross-strung...
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alterations. The only completely chromatic harps are the double (arpa doppia) and triple (Welsh) harps and cross-strung harp. The double-action pedal system was...
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of a wire-strung harp. Three of the four pre-16th-century authentic harps that survive today are of Gaelic provenance: the Brian Boru Harp in Trinity...
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primary instrument of the Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance, the cross-strung harp, both of which can be heard in Mexican Mariachi music. The vihuela's...
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Hornbostel–Sachs (section Harp lutes (323))
strings in one plane – Inline chromatic harp 322.212.2 With strings in two planes crossing each other – Cross-strung harp 322.22 With tuning action. 322.221...
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mexicano Gusli (Russia) Guqin (China) Guzheng (China) Harp Electric harp Cross-strung harp Harpsichord (Europe, keyboard instrument) Irish bouzouki Jakhe (Thailand)...
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scored for string quintet of violin, viola, cello, double bass, and cross-strung harp. Sometimes works originally written for string quartet, quintet, sextet...
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Henry Greenway (category Harp makers)
Brooklyn, N.Y. Harp Cross-strung harp Electric harp Plucked string instrument Experimental musical instrument "Double Chromatic Harp by Henry Greenway...
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Juan de Álava Hernán Ruiz the Younger Arpa de dos ordenes (Spanish cross-strung harp) Juan de Anchieta Antonio de Cabezón (organist) Juan del Encina (also...
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play Danse profane play cross-strung harp, string orchestra 1904 alternate versions: the published score indicates that the harp part can also be played...
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musician Robert Grawi created an electric double harp-lute based on the West African kora but strung and tuned differently. The gravikord is a light ergonomically...
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version Cretan lyra Critical edition (opera) Cross-dressing in music and opera Cross motif Cross-strung harp Crotalum Crusade song Cruciform melody Cubase...
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Corseque - Cortile del Belvedere - Courante - Court painter - Cresset - Cross-strung harp - Crumhorn - Cultural references to Leonardo da Vinci - Culverin -...
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Alboka Bandurria Castanets Catalan shawm Chácaras Cross-strung harp Dulzaina Fiscorn Flabiol Gaita gastoreña Gralla Guitarra de canya Guitarro Kirikoketa...
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Kora (instrument) (redirect from Kora harp)
notches on a bridge, classifying it as a bridge harp. The strings originate from a string arm or neck and cross a bridge directly supported by a resonating...
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European triangular framed harp i.e. harps with a fore pillar are found on carved 8th century Pictish stones. Pictish harps were strung from horsehair. The instruments...
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Jacob Hochbrucker (category Harp makers)
that which Hochbrucker had successfully developed. Cross-strung harp Bohemian harp R. Rensch: The Harp. Its History, Technique and Repertoire (London/New...
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Rotte (lyre) (redirect from Anglo-Saxon harp)
lyre or a harp...Irish sources provide many names for musical instruments. Primary among them are cruit or crot, and timpan, both metal-strung instruments...
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Coat of arms of Ireland (redirect from Harp without the Crown)
The coat of arms of Ireland is blazoned as Azure a harp Or, stringed Argent (a gold harp with silver strings on a blue background). These arms have long...
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steadily more depressed and morose... [She] was a sensitive, responsive, high-strung young woman. The two men in her life who meant the most to her were gone...
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Gravikord (category Harps)
modern-sculpture look, it actually has its roots in the African kora, a double strung harp... polyrhythmic music, plus the sound of the Japanese koto, African kalimba...
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the seventeenth century...Other types of harp were nevertheless known in Wales, including the metal-strung harp used by the Irish...Gut strings were the...
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Music of Scotland (section Harp)
The Clàrsach (Gd.) or Cláirseach (Ga.) is the name given to the wire-strung harp of either Scotland or Ireland. The word begins to appear by the end of...
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likely made with wood and stone and strung with goat intestines. The Babylonian santur was the ancestor of the harp, yangqin, harpsichord, qanun, cimbalom...
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The Bohemian Harp (Czech: harfa), also referred to as the Hakenharfe, is a Central European lever harp, similar to the Celtic harp, with a straight, tenoned...
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of Fine Arts, Boston and is the only known example of an early wire-strung harp outside of Ireland or Britain. The events surrounding the death of Charles...
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Noor Inayat Khan (category British recipients of the George Cross)
music at the Paris Conservatory under Nadia Boulanger, composing for both harp and piano. As a young woman, Noor began a career as a writer, publishing...
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appearance. In Gaelic, for example, "cruit" can mean "hump" or "hunch" as well as harp or violin. Like several other English loanwords from Welsh, the name is among...
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