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Gothic harp

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medieval frame harps

  • Musician (centre) playing a frame harp in the orchestra of the court of René II, duke of Lorraine, detail of a miniature painting from a 15th-century psalter (musician at right playing a fiddle); in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (MS. lat. 10491)
    In frame harp

    …was superseded by the so-called Gothic harp, having a taller, shallow soundbox; a short, less deeply curved neck; and a more slender, almost straight forepillar. By the 16th century this instrument normally had gut strings. The earlier form gave rise to the medieval Irish harp, or clairseach, the second to…

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