The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . l harps could be jjlayed only in one key, withsuch slight chromatic alterations as could be eftected bystopping a string with the linger. Chromatic tuning hasbeen unsuccessfully attempted. Pedals for making chro-matic changes were introduced early in the eighteenthcentury. Sinfilc-action harps arethose in which each pedal pro-duces only one such change;double-action, those in whicheach pedal may be used to pro-duce two such changes. Themodern double-action harp w
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . l harps could be jjlayed only in one key, withsuch slight chromatic alterations as could be eftected bystopping a string with the linger. Chromatic tuning hasbeen unsuccessfully attempted. Pedals for making chro-matic changes were introduced early in the eighteenthcentury. Sinfilc-action harps arethose in which each pedal pro-duces only one such change;double-action, those in whicheach pedal may be used to pro-duce two such changes. Themodern double-action harp wasperfected in 1810 by SebastianErard. A double harp is onewith two sets or rows of strings,ditferently tuned ; a trijile harp,one with three such sets or technique of the harp isnotable, because the fingeringremains the same in all keys:while its mechanism is exactlymodeled on the principles ofthe staff-notation. Tlie harp iscapable of very beautiful andvaried music within certainlimits of power and solid chords are feasible, more characteristicetfects are produced by playing the tones of the hanuony. Modem Harp. ^, pedestal; A, pedals; C, back ; />, soundboard ; £, neck ; J-, wrestpins; , pillar.
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