double harp

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | 247 words | Copyright

double harp. Early form of harp which had only 2 rows of str., diatonically tuned. Intermediate semitones could be obtained only by shortening the length of a str. with the thumb while plucking it with a finger. Not the same as double action harp.

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