African harps, particularly arched or "bow" harps, are found in several Sub-Saharan African music traditions, particularly in the north-east. Used from...

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers....

(1984). "Harp, section 6 African Harps". The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Vol. 2. pp. 156–157. Bebey, Francis (1975). African Music A People's...

enable easier playing of complex African cross rhythms on an African derived modern electro-acoustic harp. It is a double harp that has 24 strings evenly divided...

(Sherburne)" from the Sacred Harp Performed by the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers Problems playing this file? See media help. Sacred Harp singing is a tradition...

he plays with his fingers), percussion (various instruments), and an African harp called zaa koua.[citation needed] Njacko was born in 1958 Bazou, Cameroon...

named after them is the Mangbetu harp or guitar. See the National Music Museum and the Hamill Gallery for images. One harp has sold for over $100,000. Musicologists...

resonator," the two arms forming an "open" harp. The harp stands in contrast to the arched harp or bow harp in which the angle is much less sharp and in...

djembe, ning nong, soga, kongoma, kpanlogo, tama, kalabash and kora (African Harp). According to the Guardian "They are an infuriatingly jovial multi-racial...

extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It has features of the lute and harp. The kora is...

the Africa continent as well as their countries or regions of origin. Adungu (Uganda) African fiddle African harp (Sub-Saharan) Agogô (West Africa) Ahoko...

musician, and one of the world's most prominent players of the biram African harp. He died on 21 November 2018, aged 59. Malam Mamane Barka was born in...

d'amore Violin Cello Double Bass Zhongruan Harp Ancient Greek harp African harp Celtic harp Concert harp Kora Geomungo/komungo Khim Kutiyapi/kutyapi/kutiapi...

The 10–14 string Ghanaian seprewa, midway between the kora and the African harp, is still played but often replaced by guitar. Other styles include;...

harps followed similar organology using a resonance body made of calabash rather than wood such as the traditional lute ngoni. This West African harp...

Toni Nathaniel Harp (born August 6, 1947) is an American politician who served as the 50th Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut. Harp, a Democrat, was previously...

The simbing is a Malian harp-lute, used by the Mandinka people of Mali, and the Mandinka and Jola peoples of Senegal and Gambia. The instrument consists...

Pomona, California. His late father, Leonard Harper, was of African-American ancestry, and his mother, Ellen Harper Verdries (née Chase), is Jewish. His maternal...

The triple harp is a type of multi-course harp employing three parallel rows of strings instead of the more common single row. One common version is the...

arched harp of varying dimensions, ranging from seven to ten strings or more. The physical form of the a'dungu African harp derives from uniquely African origins...

Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as The Harp, was a plaster sculpture by African-American artist Augusta Savage. It was commissioned for the 1939...

The belly harp is a musical instrument found in West Africa (including Nigeria and Liberia) which is a musical bow with a gourd resonator which is held...

groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally...

ground harp, is a single-string bow-shaped folk musical instrument, classified as a chordophone. It is known in cultures of equatorial and south Africa, and...

she was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States. Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, Harper had a long and prolific...

Mandinka balafon, the Maures tabla drums, the Mandinka kora (a West African harp), the riiti (a Fula single-stringed bowed instrument), the Serer instruments...

Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 269 at the 2020 United States census. Situated...

instruments like the bow harp (ieta), ngombi (harp zither) and limbindi (a string bow) (Abram). "Banda Music of the Central African Republic - Sound Clip...

The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as the saddleback seal or Greenland seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the...

fusion of the string holder and the soundbox. Arched harps are found in Southeast Asia, East Africa, and elsewhere, and are historically strongly associated...