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Lyon and Healy now primarily manufactures four types of harps—the lever harp, petite pedal harp, semi-grande pedal harp, and concert grand harp. They also make limited numbers of special harps called concert grands. Lyon & Healy makes electric lever harps in nontraditional colors such as pink, green, blue, and red.
The only completely chromatic harps are the double (arpa doppia) and triple (Welsh) harps and cross-strung harp. Sébastien Érard harp mechanism. The double-action pedal system was first patented in London by Sebastien Erard in 1801 (patent number 2502) and 1802 (patent number 2595). In 1807 Charles Groll was the first to register a patent ...
The Pleyel & Wolff Company in Paris produced a cross-strung model based on pedal harp proportions in the late 19th century, to try to accommodate increasing chromaticism in orchestral music (a problem for orchestral harpists, because of the single-action pedal system still in use on orchestral harps).
Camille and Kennerly Kitt, electric harp duo, The Harp Twins, perform and arrange rock/pop on Lyon and Healy Silhouette solid body electric harps, as well as Camac electro-acoustic concert grand pedal harps. Rüdiger Oppermann performs on his self-made electric harps. Zeena Parkins plays and composes avant-garde and experimental music.
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 Company by Jitarō Aoyama in 1897 in Fukui, later generations of the family began the commercial manufacture of folk harps in the 1960s. [1]
Joseph George Morley designed and built a 48-string pedal harp called The Morley Orchestral Twentieth Century Harp. [2] It was marketed as The Largest Pedal Harp in the World . [ 3 ] He was also the author of three books on the harp: Strings, Stringing and Tuning (unknown date), Harp History (1913), and Harp Playing (1918).
Egan overcame the restrictions of the traditional Irish harp by adding the dital tuning mechanism and pliable catgut strings of the European pedal harps, calling his creation "portables". Of the c.2000 harps Egan made, only 37 are known to exist.
This mechanism, still used by modern pedal-harp makers, allows a harpist to perform in any key or chromatic setting. It was such a popular innovation that Érard sold £25,000-worth of harps in the first year of the release of the new instrument. One of these harps can be seen in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg in Germany.