Harpsichord vs. Harp

Harpsichordnoun

(musical instruments) A musical instrument with a keyboard that produces sound through a mechanical process. When the performer presses a key, a corresponding plectrum plucks a tuned string. The harpsichord originated in late medieval Europe and is one of the most important instruments used to perform Baroque music.

Harpsichordnoun

A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.

Harpsichordnoun

a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots

Harpsichordnoun

a keyboard instrument with horizontal strings which run perpendicular to the keyboard in a long tapering case, and are plucked by points of quill, leather, or plastic operated by depressing the keys. It is used chiefly in European classical music of the 16th to 18th centuries.

Harpsichord

A harpsichord (Italian: clavicembalo, French: clavecin, German: Cembalo, Spanish: clavecín, Portuguese: cravo, Dutch: klavecimbel) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism that plucks one or more strings with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic.

Harpnoun

(musical instrument) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body

Harpnoun

Any instrument of the same musicological type.

Harpnoun

(colloquial) A harmonica.

Harpnoun

(Scotland) A grain sieve.

Harpnoun

(heraldry) A heraldic representation of the musical instrument used as a charge, as in the arms of Ireland.

Harpverb

To repeatedly mention a subject.

Harpverb

(transitive) To play on a harp or similar instrument

Harpverb

(transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.

Harpverb

(transitive) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

Harpnoun

A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

Harpnoun

A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.

Harpnoun

A grain sieve.

Harpverb

To play on the harp.

Harpverb

To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; - usually with on or upon.

Harpverb

To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

Harpnoun

a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

Harpnoun

a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

Harpnoun

a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

Harpverb

come back to;

Harpverb

play the harp;

Harpnoun

a musical instrument consisting of a frame supporting a graduated series of parallel strings, played by plucking with the fingers. The modern orchestral harp has an upright frame, with pedals which enable the strings to be retuned to different keys.

Harpnoun

another term for harmonica

Harpnoun

a marine mollusc which has a large vertically ribbed shell with a wide aperture, found chiefly in the Indo-Pacific.

Harpverb

talk or write persistently and tediously on (a particular topic)

Harpverb

play on a harp

Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, including standing or sitting and in orchestras or concerts.