harpe

harp Translation of harpe – French–English dictionary harp [noun] a usually large musical instrument which is held upright, and which has many strings which are plucked with the fingers.

verb. come back to. “She is always harping on the same old things” synonyms: dwell. type of: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell.

Dwell on; talk or write about to a tedious and excessive extent. For example, She kept harping on the fact that she had no household help at all. This expression is a shortening of harp on the same string, meaning “to play the same note over and over.” It was first recorded in 1518.

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The earliest evidence of the harp is found in Ancient Egypt circa 2500 BC. They were shaped liked bows or angular and had very few strings (because they lacked a column they could not support much string tension).

The harpē (ἅρπη) was a type of sword or sickle; a sword with a sickle protrusion along one edge near the tip of the blade. The harpe is mentioned in Greek and Roman sources, and almost always in mythological contexts.

harp, stringed instrument in which the resonator, or belly, is perpendicular, or nearly so, to the plane of the strings. Each string produces one note, the gradation of string length from short to long corresponding to that from high to low pitch.

The harp is a unique stringed instrument and can be classified as a member of two families - the string family and the percussion family.

If you are still looking for a verbal characterization of the Dusty sound, here are some of the words we've heard used by players of our harps: balanced, clear as crystal, shimmering, deep, resonant, distinctive ring, bell-like, sweet, strong, rich overtones, big sound, responsive, articulate, lush, even, warm, crisp, ...

variable noun. A harp is a large musical instrument consisting of a row of strings stretched from the top to the bottom of a frame. You play the harp by plucking the strings with your fingers. Phrasal verbs: See harp on.

No one person can be identified as the inventor of the harp. Instead, many ancient civilizations developed harps from existing tools and materials, such as the hunter's bow and animal intestines and hair. Evidence of harps can be dated to at least 3000 BCE in the ancient Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Orpheus Orpheus is known as the most talented music player of the ancient times. It is said that god Apollo was his father, from whom took his extreme talent in music, and the Muse Calliope was his mother. He was living in Thrace, on the northeastern part of Greece.