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[4] [5] [a] After this battle, Dagda discovered his harp hanging on a wall, in a feasting-house wherein Bres and his father Elathan were also. The harp had two names, Daur Dá Bláo [b] ("Oak of Two Meadows" [8] [10] [c]) and Cóir Cetharchair ("Four-Angled Music" [11] or perhaps rather "Four-sided Rectitude" [12] [13]). On this harp, the Dagda ...
The Leader of the Luddites, 1812. Hand-coloured etching. The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay and output quality. They often destroyed the machines in organised raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of ...
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that was invented by Brennen McAda. Running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or concerts.
The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, [nb 1] is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame. Despite the colloquial name, the Jew's harp most likely originated in Siberia , specifically in or around the Altai Mountains , and is of Turkic origin.
Man raised his sword, once God had gone, To slay his brother, and the roar Of battlefields now casts upon Our homes the shadow of the war. The harps to which we sang are hung, On willow boughs, and their refrain Drowned by the anguish of the young Whose blood is mingled with the rain. [13]: p233
On a low-headed harp the corr was morticed at the bass end to receive a tenon on the lámhchrann; on a high-headed harp this tenon fitted into a mortice on the back of the lámhchrann. The com (soundbox) was usually carved from a single piece of willow, hollowed out from behind. A panel of harder timber was carefully inserted to close the back.
The Lyres of Ur or Harps of Ur is a group of four string instruments excavated in a fragmentary condition at the Royal Cemetery at Ur in Iraq from 1922 onwards. They date back to the Early Dynastic III Period of Mesopotamia , between about 2550 and 2450 BC, making them the world's oldest surviving stringed instruments. [ 1 ]
After the medieval harp, the Gothic harp became the popular style of harp in the Renaissance. These harps grew to be larger with more strings. Brays were added for resonance on lower bass strings. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, harp makers in Europe added levers and other mechanisms to increase chromatic capability of the ...