Angular harp
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Angular harp is a category of musical instruments in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. It describes a harp in which "the neck makes a sharp angle with the resonator," t
Egyptian angular harp (10th–8th century B.C.) Found at Thebes. The instrument has a pine wood mast (vertical bar under the green skin that the strings are tied to). The vertical wood box is made of sycamore and covered with skin, with a skin soundboard. The horizontal tailpiece is made of cedar. The strings are modern.
In this konghou vertical harp, the body curves forward. The body also extends downward below the soundbox, and the neck (horizontal) connects there.
Assyrian horizontal harp with beater rod. In other images the rod is used as a pick.
Elamite vertical harps
Arched harp
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Arched harps is a category in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system for musical instruments, a type of harp. The instrument may also be called bow harp. With arched harps, the neck forms a contin
Angular harp
…describes a harp in which "the neck makes a sharp angle with the resonator," the two arms forming an "open" harp. The harp stands in contrast to the arched harp or bow harp in which the angle is much less sharp and in which the neck curves away from the resonator (and can curve back above it in some harps). It…
Before becoming stick zithers Indian veenas were arched harps. Sculpture of a woman playing the veena 6th–7th century, India (Jammu and Kashmir, ancient kingdom of Kashmir)
Cycladic culture harp player, 2800–2700 B.C
Open angular-harp.
Frame harp, the opening is closed.