Bragi is shown with a harp and accompanied by his wife Iðunn in this 19th-century painting by Nils Blommér.

David is described as someone renowned for his skill at playing the harp, and consequently summoned to Saul's court to calm his moods.

The instrument is usually acoustic and the harp strings are usually tuned to lower notes than the guitar strings, for an added bass range.

Normally there is neither fingerboard nor frets behind the harp strings.

The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard.

A person who plays the harp is called a harpist or harper.

In blues music, the harmonica is casually referred to as a " blues harp " or " harp ", but it is a free reed wind instrument ; not a stringed instrument, and is therefore not a true harp.

The body is hollow and when a taut string is plucked, the body resonates, projecting sound both inward towards the harp player through a series of usually oval openings ( whose principal purpose is to allow access to the strings and only secondarily to enhance resonance ) and, much more importantly and powerfully, outward through the flexible and taut-strung sounding board.

The longest side of the harp is called the column or pillar.

The Triangular Frame harp is depicted in sculpture from the 8th century Pictish stones in Scotland and in manuscripts ( i. e. the Utrecht Psalter ) from the early 9th century France.

In Perú harp is used commonly in andean music called Huayno.

In southern Mexico ( Chiapas ), there is a very different indigenous style of harp music.

Corum also hears the prophecy of a seeress, who claims Corum should fear a brother ( who will apparently slay him ), a harp and above all, beauty.

Some harp guitars also feature much higher pitch strings strung below the traditional guitar strings.

The number of harp strings varies greatly, depending on the type of guitar and also the player's personal preference.

The harp also was predominant with medieval bards, troubadors and minnesingers throughout the Spanish Empire.

The term " harp " has also been applied to many instruments which are not chordophones.

Modern harp strings are often nylon or, less often, metal ; tuning pins are also metal components.

Mexican " jarocha " harp music of Veracruz has also gained some international recognition, evident in the popularity of " la bamba ".

Turkey had a nine-string harp called the çeng that has also become extinct.

There was an ancient Chinese harp called konghou ; the name is also now used for a modern Chinese instrument which is being revived.

The fifth finger may also have been used on earlier, more lightly strung modern harps: Madame de Genlis, for example, in her Méthode, published in Paris in the early nineteenth century, promotes the use of all five fingers, while Roslyn Rensch suggests that Mlle de Guînes, the harpist for whom Mozart wrote his Concerto for Flute and Harp, might occasionally have used all five fingers when playing the harp.

Many other scales, both diatonic and synthetic, can be obtained by adjusting the pedals differently from each other ; also, many chords in traditional harmony can be obtained by adjusting pedals so that some notes are enharmonic equivalents of others, and this is central to harp technique.

The pedal harp was also present in the Michael Kamen and Metallica concert and album, S & M, as part of the San Francisco Symphony orchestra.

He also recorded some albums especially dedicated to the harp: the famous Renaissance of the Celtic Harp ( 1972 ), " Harpes du Nouvel Age " ( 1985 ), and " Beyond Words " ( 2002 ).

The harp is also traditionally used on the flag of Leinster.

The harp is also used extensively as a corporate logo — for both private and government organisations.

Relatively new organizations also use the harp, but often modified to reflect a theme relevant to their organization, for instance ; Irish airline Ryanair uses a modified harp, and the Irish State Examinations Commission uses it with an educational theme.

The harp is also used as the logo for League of Ireland football team Finn Harps, who are Donegal's senior soccer club.

The harmonica, also called French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

Little Walter also cupped his hands around the instrument, tightening the air around the harp, giving it a powerful, distorted sound, somewhat reminiscent of a saxophone, hence the term " Mississippi saxophone ".

Bending also creates the glissandos characteristic of much blues harp and country harmonica playing.

Harmonica players who amplified their instrument with microphones and tube amplifiers, such as blues harp players, also have a range of techniques that exploit the properties of the microphone and the amplifier, such as changing the way the hands are cupped around the instrument and the microphone or rhythmically breathing or chanting into the microphone while playing.

Wooden pegs and harp pegs are also used, but both can still cause tuning problems in damper climates unless made with great skill.

Prescriptive attempts to distinguish the glissando from the portamento by limiting the former to the filling in of discrete intermediate pitches on instruments like the piano, harp, and fretted stringed instruments have run up against established usage of instruments like the trombone and timpani.

In ancient and medieval times, stringed instruments such as the harp, lyre and lute were used with psalms and hymns.

άρπα ( arpa or harpa ) or harp a stringed musical instrument that fingers mimic a vulture bird.

The laser harp is not a stringed instrument at all, but is a harp-shaped electronic instrument that has laser beams where harps have strings.

The Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom are " Quarterly, I and IV Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or England ; II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules Scotland ; III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent Ireland ".

The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the Earldom is: Per pale argent and sable a chevron and in base a crescent all counterchanged, on a canton azure a harp or stringed argent.

Besides being the only strung instrument played solely by the wind, the Aeolian harp is the only stringed instrument that plays solely harmonic frequencies.

The arms used in England were: Quarterly, I and IV, quarterly 1st and 4th Azure three fleurs de lys Or ( for France ), 2nd and 3rd Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or ( for England ); II Or a lion rampant within a tressure flory-counter-flory Gules ( for Scotland ); III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent ( for Ireland, this was the first time that Ireland was included in the royal arms ).

A psaltery is a stringed musical instrument of the harp or the zither family.

The word psaltery derives from the Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον ( psaltērion ), " stringed instrument, psaltery, harp " and that from the verb ψάλλω ( psallō ), " to touch sharply, to pluck, pull, twitch " and in the case of the strings of musical instruments, " to play a stringed instrument with the fingers, and not with the plectrum.

Moondog also invented several musical instruments, including a small triangular-shaped harp known as the " oo ", another which he named the " ooo-ya-tsu ", and the " hüs " ( after the Norwegian, " hus ", meaning " house ") which is a triangular stringed instrument played with a bow.

: Quarterly, first and fourth Gules, a three towered castle Or, masoned Sable and ajouré Azure ( for Castile ), second and third Argent, a lion rampant Purpure ( blazoned Gules ) crowned Or ( for León ), enté en point ; Argent, a pomegranate proper seeded Gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves Vert ( for Granada ), overall an inescutcheon Azure a bordure Gules, three fleurs-de-lys Or ( for Bourbon-Anjou ); impaled with quarterly, first and fourth Gules three lions passant gardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure ( for England ), second quarter Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules ( for Scotland ), third quarter Azure a harp Or stringed Argent ( for Ireland ), overall an inescutcheon quarterly, first and fourth Azure a lion rampant barry of ten argent and gules, armed or a bordure compony Argent and Gules ( for Hesse, modified ), second and third Argent, two pallets Sable ( for Battenberg ), a bordure Gules charged with eight lions passant gardant Or armed and langued Azure ( for England ).

* Nabla ( instrument ), a Hebrew stringed instrument after which that symbol was named, see harp.

Among the most popular instruments are: blown instruments soinari, known in Samegrelo as larchemi ( Georgian panpipe ), stviri ( flute ), gudastviri ( bagpipe ), sting instruments changi ( harp ), chonguri ( four stringed unfretted long neck lute ), panduri ( three stringed fretted long neck lute ), bowed chuniri, known also as chianuri, and variety of drums.

: Solo competitions shall be held for the following instruments: fiddle ; two-row accordion ; concert flute ; whistle ; piano accordion ; concertina ; uilleann pipes ; harp ; mouth organ ; banjo ; mandolin-excluding banjo-mandolin ; piano ; old-style melodeon ; bodhrán ; war pipes ; miscellaneous such as three and five row button accordion, piccolo, harmonica and other stringed instruments ; céilí band drums ; accompaniment – confined to piano, harp, guitar and bouzouki-type instruments ; solo traditional singing in Irish and English ; whistling ; lilting ; newly composed ballads and amhráin nua-cheaptha ( newly composed songs in Irish ).

Traditional musical instruments include lekolulo, a kind of flute played by herding boys, setolo-tolo, resembling an extended jaw harp played by men using their mouth, and the women's stringed thomo.

The coat of arms of Ireland is blazoned as Azure a harp Or, stringed Argent ( a gold harp with silver strings on a blue background ).