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the elegant giant secretly demanding more from your fingers than a piano ever dares
means A musical instrument with a tall triangular frame and many strings stretched vertically, played by plucking with the fingers.
from From Old English 'hearpe,' part of a broad family of Germanic words — German 'Harfe,' Old Norse 'harpa' — for this plucked, frame-strung instrument. The verb sense, as in 'to harp on something,' grew naturally from the instrument: striking the same string over and over became a metaphor for returning to the same tiresome subject again and again.
- string count
- a concert model has 47 strings
- color code
- red strings are C, black are F
- foot work
- seven pedals retune every string mid-song
- royal weight
- a full harp weighs about 80 pounds
- ancient roots
- depicted in art over 5,000 years ago
dorothy ashby — jazz harpist who pioneered electric harp solos in detroit, 1950s-1980s
carlos salzedo — french-american harpist who revolutionized modern harp technique and composed 200+ works for the instrument