Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument. Harps have been known since antiquity in Asia, Africa and Europe, dating back at least as early as 3500 BCE.

Quotes

• I lay my harp on the curved table,
  Sitting there idly, filled only with emotions.
  Why should I trouble to play?
  A breeze will come and sweep the strings.
  • Bai Juyi, "The Harp", in The White Pony: An Anthology Of Chinese Poetry (1949), ed. Robert Payne, p. 220

• In Paradise they no more look awry;
  and though they make anew, they make no lie.
  Be sure they still will make, not being dead,
  and poets shall have flames upon their head,
  and harps whereon their faultless fingers fall:
  there each shall choose for ever from the All.
  • J. R. R. Tolkien, in Mythopoeia (1931)

The Bible: Authorized King James Version

•   21  And his brother's name was Jubal:
  he was the father of all such as handle
  the harp and organ.
  • Genesis, Chapter 4, Verse 21

•    7   Sing unto the Lord with thanks-
  giving; sing praise upon the harp unto
  our God:
  • Psalms, Psalm 147, Verse 7

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Harp on Wikipedia