Playing a harp can be an expensive hobby — a high-end instrument can cost as much as a car. A budget model, however, might not hold its tuning very well, which can make for a frustrating playing ...

For the past 25 years Micah and Shoshanna Harrari have been manufacturing Biblical style harps and lyres in their workshop. They spoke to Israel National Radio about how they began, why they do it and ...

When Emily Levin was a kid, her dad, a Protestant minister, told her bedtime stories. One of these was about the young David playing his harp for King Saul. The music would soothe the king, and drive ...

Harp virtuoso Laura Simpson will be returning to Mission San Franciso Solano in Sonoma to deliver a lecture and performance focusing on the history of the musical instrument this month as part of ...

When bushfires started threatening the Huon Valley in the far south of Tasmania in January this year, one local harpist wanted to help in a truly unusual way. “I lived through something similar myself ...

This half-pendulum half-harp musical instrument is the creation of New York based interactive design company, Pattern Studio. Dubbed "The Gravity Harp," it was commissioned by Icelandic musician Bjork ...

A horizontal harp, strung with seven to nine strings and usually decorated with a finial in the shape of a human forearm, is likely to have been a symbol of the Neo-Assyrian state. Various features ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A straightforward benefit concert or charity album wasn’t going to cut it. Not this time. No, given the urgency and severity of the problem, Yolanda Kondonassis felt the need to do ...

Four years ago, Andrew Kasab brought home a pair of cheap acoustic guitars. In fact, one was so damaged that it was freea gift from Music & Arts, the instrument retail store where Kasab has taught ...