A hundred years ago, a famous French harp company was trying to sell a new-fangled instrument: the pedal harp. It was pitched as a rival to the other new-fangled harp, the chromatic harp. The ...

What do you think of when you think of harp music? Probably little angels playing them while sitting on white fluffy clouds. Or maybe musicians in powdered wigs, in the old-timey court of some royal.

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 ...

Pedal harps can cost $70,000 — far more than lever harps, which cost $2,000 to $9,000. At first glance, a pedal harp looks like a simple frame with a row of strings. But there are complicated ...

SPRINGDALE — Emily Carpenter can’t recall exactly what it was that led her to ask her mother for a harp one Christmas several years ago. “I honestly don’t remember,” said Emily, a ninth-grader at ...

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 ...

ANYONE attending a symphony concert can spot the gorgeous, gleaming harp, even from the last row of the last balcony. Children and adults alike gasp at the size of it, at its sparkling gold crown ...

An Aoyama pedal harp, stolen from Friends University in February, was returned to its rightful owner on Friday. Raul Rangel Courtesy The harp heist has been solved. More than six months after it was ...

Somehow over the weekend, an ambitious thief walked off with a large pedal harp – and a bassoon – stored behind a locked door at Friends University, according to its owner. Raul Rangel, a music major ...