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Harp: Brief Description — VSL

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“Harps may come in a variety of shapes and sizes but they all have three components in common: the soundbox (body), the neck and the strings. In 1914 the Berlin musicologists Ernst Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs defined harps as follows: a harp is any stringed instrument whose string plane is vertical to the soundbox. This is true of both triangular and rectangular instruments as well as those with a simple mechanism or a complex one.”

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