Ancient Irish harps are small in stature and are strung with wire strings. They are rested against a shoulder and traditionally played with fingernails, not finger pads. Most of the original harp ...

Now, researchers at Virginia Tech University have developed a new design that they say has three times the efficiency of regular fog nets. They call it a “harp,” because its vertical pattern ...

Cs are red, Fs black and everything in between is beige. We’re looking at the harp, at the colors, at the music, at the conductor.” In the U.S., there are two primary schools of harp playing.

The harp makes a magical sound, but not many composers have known how to take full advantage of it. Verdi and Puccini operas have good harp parts, and Debussy and Mahler are among the orchestral ...

The harp is intimidating to a lot of composers because of all the pedal work and all. But if anybody knows how to write for the harp, it's John because he's written so many wonderful harp parts in ...

Many of Goodrich’s more advanced students play in the Angelus Harp Ensemble, Houston’s only group of young harp students who perform on a regular basis. The students play lobby concerts for ...

At just 5 feet tall, she got a medium-sized “semi-grand” pedal harp with a “really big sound board” to give her good volume and projection. Still, it’s heavy at around 80 pounds and ...

Stravinsky wrote a lot of very important harp parts. He didn’t necessarily write well for the instrument, but they’re brilliant, so all harpists try to play them the way he wanted.” ...