harp

Despite being unable to read sheet music, Parton played several instruments including the banjo, harp, piano and saxophone.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Despite these hardships, they formed a community, depicted by a slave-cabin diorama and a display of everyday artifacts found on the property, such as tobacco pipes, a jaw harp, pottery and other items.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

He did, however, enhance the original orchestration with new colors for harp, organ and brass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Alice McLeod was a highly gifted and accomplished pianist who later became renowned for her mastery of the harp.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026

In a 1981 study, Griswold & Chroback found that the harp, flute, and piccolo had high feminine ratings; the trumpet, string bass, and tuba had high masculine ratings.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

A pair of harps, placed antiphonally in boxes at opposite sides of the stage, plus a theorbo, offer an otherworldly descant, as do the sounds of the celesta and chimes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

So there’s violins, there’s harpsichord, there’s harps — there’s a lot in the arrangements that make it feel older or classic or something.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025

Ernesto Rey and his cowboys awoke in their hammocks before dawn, to the percussive harps of llanera music on their phones and Jupiter visible in the sky.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

That tempo, in part, is set by Bieniemy — whose boisterous style of coaching harps on details and demands excellence out of players.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 7, 2023

Lockhart had them all wearing golden wings and carrying harps.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

For centuries the finest medical minds harped on attuning a balance among the four humors—sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic—in tender young constitutions by adjusting the proportions of hot-cold and moist-dry elements in the diet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

"Something that coach Coen's harped on is just going 1-0 every week," says Little.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

Perhaps you’ve felt that I’ve harped a bit much on the Astrud Gilberto song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, "harped on his absence" in her closing statement to the jury this morning.

From Salon ● May 8, 2023

“Well then don’t get mad at her if she never does what you ask her to do,” Bertha harped, stirring some flour into a gravy base in a frying pan on the stove.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

"They are harping on about getting more disabled people in employment," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025

His harping on this point could come across as doctrinaire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

But that the larger campaign is harping on this suggests they really think it's smart strategy.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024

But, he also painted a broader picture of why he is concerned about increased regulation, harping back to Amazon’s blocked acquisition of iRobot, the Boston-based maker of the autonomous vacuum cleaners Roomba.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024

“We were in seventh grade, and my dad was harping on me real bad. Patrick and his dad were there. It was deer season. I hit one.”

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy