The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be played in either a seated or standin
An Egyptian vertical harp, kneeling harper
The Harps of Chogha Mish Iran are considered to be the world's oldest surviving stringed instruments, 3300–3100 BCE
The Queen's gold lyre from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, c. 2500 BCE; Iraq Museum, Baghdad
In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the stri
Bow Harp or Harp Lute, West Africa
Hellenistic banquet scene from the 1st century AD, Hadda, Gandhara. Lute player far right.
Spanish stele of a boy with a pandura.
Viol, fidel and rebec (from left to right) on display at Amakusa Korejiyokan in Amakusa, Kumamoto, Japan