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unusual facts about Harp


Chord bible

Members belonging to the chordophone family include the guitar, piano, banjo, organ, mandolin, ukulele, Harp, balalaika and many other regional speciality instruments.


A Balladeer

In early 2007, the band won a Zilveren Harp (Silver Harp), a supporting prize for promising musical artists.

Academy of Music, University of Zagreb

Conducting, harp and percussion instruments department (Odsjek za dirigiranje, harfu i udaraljke)

Adlington Hall

To the sides of the organ are murals depicting, on one side Arabella Hunt, and on the other Saint Cecilia playing a harp.

Anastasia Razvalyaeva

She played solo and chamber music concerts at various festivals such as the Kodály Festival in Kecskemét, Hungary (2010), International Harp Festival in Belgrade, Serbia (2010), International Harp Festival in Gödöllő, Hungary (2010 – 2011), Budapest Spring Festival, Hungary (2011), International Chamber Music Festival, in Kaposvár, Hungary (2011).

Anne LeBaron

Her 1991 recording Phantom orchestra featured the Anne LeBaron Quintet (Frank London, trumpet; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Davey Williams, electric guitar; Gregg Bendian, drums, vibraphone, percussion; and Anne LeBaron, harp with electronics).

Arnold Cooke

The harpist Maria Korchinska introduced his Harp Quintet in 1932; Sir Henry Wood conducted his Concert Overture No.1 at the 1934 Promenade Concerts.

Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp

Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp is a 2006 documentary film directed by Matt and Erica Hinton, and narrated by Jim Lauderdale.

Celso Duarte

In 1998, he met Lila Downs while playing a festival in Oaxaca, Mexico, and since then has gained critical acclaim playing harp and violin in her band, La Misteriosa.

Chung

Chung (instrument) a metal mouth harp common to many regions and cultures

Dayton, Maryland

Notable landmarks are the Crossroads Pub famed for their Maryland blue crabs and once owned by the Harp family (Harp's Pub), who also owned Harp's grocery store; the quaint Post Office that oozes Americana; the gas station that was once owned by a man named Lenny, where he used to pump gasoline for automobiles, clean the windshields of cars, and sell vanilla popsicles for 10 cents; and the "Rabbit" which is properly decorated for major holidays.

Derick Thomson

He is the author of numerous books including An Introduction to Gaelic Poetry, The Companion to Gaelic Poetry, European Poetry in Gaelic, and collections of Gaelic poetry, including his collected poems Creachadh na Clàrsaich (Plundering of the Harp/clarsach) which shared the Scottish Book of the Year Award in 1983.

Desolate North

He says that what he is creating is neither folk, nor traditional, and even the harp songs are not traditional works, though they are influenced by the traditional music of the United Kingdom and traditional Irish music.

Door Harp

Door Harp is the first solo studio album by Michael Houser, former lead guitarist of Widespread Panic, released posthumously on September 24, 2002, on Sanctuary Records.

Erzsébet Gaál

Erzsébet Gaál is a native of Hungary currently living in Bloomington, Indiana, where she is an active professional harpist, Kodály pedagogue and a researcher in the field of physical wellness for musicians.

Flag and coat of arms of Leinster

It is recorded that his ship, the St Francis, as she lay at anchor at Dunkirk, flew from her mast top "the Irish harp in a green field, in a flag".

Flesh and Wood

James Law - keyboards, vocals, djembe, bodhran, Jews harp, mellotron, bush harmonica

Gulnara Mashurova

Gulnara Mashurova is a native of Kazakhstan and a graduate of Moscow Conservatory, known for her work on the harp.

Highlight of Mashurova's current season include recitals with acclaimed Singaporean violinist Lynnette Seah in November 2006 and a concert with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in February 2006, playing Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto.

Harmonica Frank

He could also play harmonica with his nose and thus play two harmonicas at once, a skill he shared with blues harp players Walter Horton and Gus Cannon's partner Noah Lewis.

Henrik Rohmann

In 1965 Rohmann performed at the Hungarian premiere of Ernő Dohnányi’s ‘Harp competition’, conducted by Pál Varga.

Jessica Suchy-Pilalis

She studied harp at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee with Jeanne Henderson, with Edward Druzinsky of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Eastman School of Music with Eileen Malone and Indiana University with Susann McDonald, specializing in harp and music theory.

Jew's harp

The bamboo jaw harp, known as kubing or kumbing is used by various Filipino peoples throughout the Philippine archipelago, and features in various neo-folk songs by artists like Joey Ayala and Grace Nono.

Joey Ayala

Some of the Filipino ethnic instruments Ayala is known to use include the two-stringed Hegalong of the T'Boli people of Mindanao, the Kubing, the bamboo jaw harp found in various forms throughout the Philippines, and the 8-piece gong set, Kulintang, the melodical gong-rack of the indigenous peoples of the southern part of the country.

Liao Zilan

In 2008, the duo presented compositions for guzheng and harp by the Welsh composer Bill Connor at Liverpool University, as part of the Liverpool's European Capital of Culture 2008 programme.

Lorenzo Lyons

Samoan writer John Kneubuhl wrote a play based on his life titled "The Harp in the Willows" in 1946.

Ludwig Senfl

2009 - Missa Paschalis, Motetten and Lieder. The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, QuinEssential, Andrew Lawrence-King (Harp), Christopher Watson (Tenor), Robert Macdonald (Bass).

Luis Venegas de Henestrosa

Few details are known about his life and he is most remembered for publishing Libro de cifra nueva para tecla, Arpa y Vihuela, a collection of over two hundred pieces for harp, keyboard and vihuela.

Michael Dwyer

One of Michael Dwyer's sons was the owner of The Harp Hotel in Bungendore, New South Wales in circa 1838.

Monika Stadler

RadioKulturhaus wrote, 'Internationally recognized harpist Monika Stadler brings a breath of fresh air and new dimensions to the world of harp music with her compositions, in which she combines elements of jazz, classical, world, folk and improvisational music to form her very own personal musical signature.

Osian Ellis

His own compositions have drawn on his Welsh heritage, including settings of Welsh folksongs for tenor and harp and settings of medieval Welsh strict metre poems.

Prométhée

The first performance at Arènes de Béziers on 27 August 1900 involved almost 800 performers (including two wind bands and 15 harps) and was watched by an audience of 10,000.

Róisín Elsafty

She has also performed as part of The Irish Consort with tenor John Elwes, Reiko Ichise on bass viol and Siobhán Armstrong playing the traditional wire-strung Irish harp and the European Renaissance harp.

Sacred Harp

In January 2009, Sacred Harp singing was introduced to Ireland, by Dr. Juniper Hill of University College Cork, spreading quickly from a class module into the wider community.

Saung

The most significant innovator was the talented courtier Myawaddy Mingyi U Sa (1766–1853), who adapted repertoires of Siamese music into Burmese, rewrote the Siamese Ramayana, called Ramakien, into the Burmese Enaung-zat, composed harp music for it, and developed a whole new genre of harp music called "Yodaya" (the Burmese word for Ayutthaya).

Seed bombing

In 1987, Lynn Garrison created the Haitian Aerial Reforestation Project (HARP) in which tons of seed would be scattered from specially modified aircraft.

Songs of the Scribe

Helen Davies – Irish harp, wire-strung harp, monochords, Tibetan bowl

Southern Musical Convention

The Southern Musical Convention supplied the pattern for many subsequent Sacred Harp musical organizations, including the two oldest existing Sacred Harp Conventions - the Chattahoochee Musical Convention and the East Texas Musical Convention.

Space Harp

The Space Harp, also known as a Frankiphone, is an electrified lamellophone invented by Phil Cohran as part of a musicological experiment exploring his African roots.

Steve Marriner

The review from jazzreview.com notes the album's "nods to harp legends Little Walter, Junior Wells and Kim Wilson, and states that Marriner's "tight band fan the flames of tradition with a scorching sound for the 21st century.

Susann McDonald

She also recorded single issues including organ music with Diane Bish for the Allen Organ Company, music of Miklós Rózsa with oboist Allan Vogel for the Bay Cities label, recital music for Boite a Musique, and mostly 20th-century literature for Music Works-Harp Editions.

Too Low for Zero

John also reunited with the core of his backing band of the early '70s: Dee Murray, Nigel Olsson and Davey Johnstone as well as Ray Cooper, Kiki Dee and Skaila Kanga (who played harp on John's self-titled album and Tumbleweed Connection) – two other musicians were intended to join the line-up, but dropped out.

Traversata

Traversata is a collaborative album by American mandolinist David Grisman, Italian classical mandolinist Carlo Aonzo and Italian guitarist Beppe Gambetta,playing guitar and the traditional, 14-string harp guitar.

Triple harp

Today's leading exponents of the triple harp include Robin Huw Bowen, originally a classical harpist who was influenced by the music of Ar Log to the extent that he switched to the triple harp.

Veil of Gossamer

Dave Bainbridge - Keyboards, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Bouzouki, Mandolin, Balafon, 15 String Harp, Star Bells, Bongos, Hand Drum, Indian Tambourine, Shakers, Finger Cymbals

Water for Life

Jean Michel Jarre: bass guitar, cymbals, Dynacord, Eminent, Laser Harp, Midi flute, music box, Roland AX-1, Theremin

William Conyngham

Conyngham is most famous today for having presented the Trinity College Harp to Trinity College Dublin; from 1922 the harp was used as the model for the insignia of the Irish Free State and the Republic of Ireland.


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