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

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Bless his heart, he is full of beans,” he continues, describing Jagger this way twice in 30 minutes, “and playing some really great blues harp on this record.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

The midtempo “Ridin’ High” starts with a descending harp glissando that pours into a synthesizer seasoned by a vibraslap’s rattlesnake hiss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

People just vote the way that they vote so it’s not a thing that I harp on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

He longed for the music to continue, but Adaon stopped, almost abruptly, and with a grave smile handed the harp back to Fflewddur.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

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

At his signal, the strings went off on a pizzicato run, buoyed by harps and congas, before dissolving into a bass drum pulse beneath simmering horns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

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

Silver oars propelled the craft, each stroke keeping time to the music of flutes and harps.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

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

“That’s the key to success and is something we have harped on and is the reason we are on this little run.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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

Wiatt, apparently having cold feet, starts harping on culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

"We need reinforcements, but I don't want to keep harping on about it. I don't need to beg for players that we need."

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025

You’ve said your sis won’t stop harping on your solution, which suggests there’s a deeper issue here.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2024

In the end, that imbalance in harping on the matter was unfair to her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

“Still harping on my daughter! He calls me a fishmonger? He knows me not Truly, he is mad.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein