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    for 2 Harps Problems playing this file? See media help. The pedal harp (also known as the concert harp) is a large and technologically modern harp, designed...
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    made of wood. Some have multiple rows of strings and pedal attachments. Ancient depictions of harps were recorded in Mesopotamia (now Iraq), Persia (now...
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  • etc. Effects pedal, a pedal used commonly for electric guitars Pedal keyboard, a musical keyboard operated by the player's feet Pedal harp, a modern orchestral...
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    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...
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  • for her ambient jazz compositions, where she predominantly plays the pedal harp, modular synthesiser, keyboards and piano. In 2021, she released her debut...
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    Gaelic harp tradition was dying out, a new harp was developed in Ireland. It had gut strings and semitone mechanisms like an orchestral pedal harp, and...
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    reconstructions of medieval harps today. The instrument is the predecessor to the concert grand pedal harp. All medieval harps were built with a large vertical...
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    system for a non-pedal harp that made it more portable than a pedal harp but which allowed flexibility in harp tuning. Her extensive harp collection is held...
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    harp, as well as amplified and regular pedal harps. Her style is mostly jazz, blues, and pop. Camille and Kennerly Kitt, electric harp duo, The Harp Twins...
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    and jarred. Every attempt failed until the invention of the pedal harp. The skill of harp making in Wales had all but been lost for some 60 years until...
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  • Gusli (Russia) Guzheng (China) Harp Chromatic harp Electric harp Folk harp Pedal Harp (a.k.a. concert harp) Triple harp Harpsichord (Europe, keyboard instrument)...
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    the harp which she "loved from the first lesson onward." She first played on smaller Celtic harps until her parents bought her a full-size pedal harp in...
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    Lyon & Healy (category Harp makers)
    makers of harps for orchestral use—which are known as concert harps or pedal harps. Lyon & Healy also makes smaller folk harps or lever harps (based on...
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    pedal (or una corda), the sostenuto pedal, and the sustaining pedal (or damper pedal). Some pianos omit the sostenuto pedal, or have a middle pedal with...
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    Suzuki method (section Harp)
    The harp repertoire is in five volumes. These books are suitable for learning to read and play music on the pedal harp or the lever harp (folk harp, Irish/Celtic...
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    Walter (1955). Orchestration, p. 5. Wooster, Patricia McNulty. "Pedal Harp 101". harp spectrum.org. Retrieved March 18, 2021. Brenner, Patrick. "Early...
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  • unique aural flavour". On a harp, the player can slide their finger across the strings, quickly playing the scale (or on pedal harp even arpeggios such as...
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    Saung (redirect from Myanmar harp)
    saung-gauk (စောင်းကောက်): IPA: [sáʊɰ̃ɡaʊʔ], Burmese harp, Burma harp, or Myanmar harp), is an arched harp used in traditional Burmese music. The saung is...
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    Bicycle (redirect from Pedal cycle)
    A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels...
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    The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied...
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  • 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...
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    (1796–1858), entered into partnership with him in 1820. A single-action pedal harp dated around 1810 in the Henry Ford Museum is believed to be the work...
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    while modern concert harps use a pedal system to change key by stopping the relevant strings. After losing ground to the pedal harp in the 19th century...
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    Lyon, director of the Pleyel harp-making company, had invented a new type of instrument – the chromatic harp – with no pedals but with an additional set...
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    Qualia for lever harp or pedal harp or piano Reflexionem for lever harp or pedal harp or piano Sarabande & Allegro for oboe & harp Some Blessed Hope...
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    and the Hilliard Ensemble. The Chaconne was masterfully transcribed for pedal harp by Dewey Owens, published by Lyra, and also by Skaila Kanga. In 2005 Joseph...
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    Kennerly perform on Venus "Classic" Concert Grand pedal harps and Lyon & Healy "Silhouette" Electric lever harps. Camille and Kennerly portrayed "The Merry Christians"...
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    Sébastien Érard (category Harp makers)
    to be shortened by a semitone. Érard's "double movement" seven-pedal action for the harp (perfected and patented in the summer of 1810, Patent no 3332)...
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    Jean-Henri Naderman (category Harp makers)
    Naderman single-pedal harp is supposed to have been modelled after the successful eighteenth-century Bavarian single-action mechanism pedal harp, whose manufacture...
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    Bass drum (redirect from Bass drum pedal)
    single bass drum pedal. William F. Ludwig made the bass drum pedal workable in 1909, paving the way for the modern drum kit. A bass drum pedal operates much...
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