harps in English

noun
1
a musical instrument, roughly triangular in shape, 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 that enable the strings to be retuned to different keys.
On the modern harp , players pluck the strings near the middle with the pads of their fingers.
2
a marine mollusk that has a large vertically ribbed shell with a wide aperture, found chiefly in the Indo-Pacific.
The Harpa mollusc shares much in common with volutes and olives. All three families make up the Volutacea superfamily, all of which are active, carnivorous sand burrowers.
verb
1
talk or write persistently and tediously on a particular topic.
guys who are constantly harping on about the war
2
play on a harp.
noun
verb

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1. Aeolian Wind Harps by Mohican Wind Harps

2. Harps and Stringed Instruments

3. 92.01 PIANOS ( INCLUDING AUTOMATIC PIANOS , WHETHER OR NOT WITH KEYBOARDS ) ; HARPSICHORDS AND OTHER KEYBOARD STRINGED INSTRUMENTS ; HARPS BUT NOT INCLUDING AEOLIAN HARPS

4. 27 She continually harps on lack of money.

5. The murmur of the spring harps by us.

6. Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic shapes surmount many ancient harps and lyres

7. Jones harps on this theme more than on any other.

8. Upon the poplar trees in the midst of her we hung our harps.

9. The Bardic is a travel-sized lever harp manufactured by French harp maker Camac Harps

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11. I recalled the scenes of little orchestras at work in the plazas with homemade harps and flutes.

12. Introduced over 40 year ago, the Roosebeck brand of Lutes, Harps, Dulcimers, and Balalaikas are appreciated by musicians worldwide

13. The king commanded: ‘As soon as you hear the sound of trumpets, harps, and bagpipes, bow down to the statue!

14. They accompanied their vocal praise “with instruments of the string type and with harps, . . . with the cymbals playing aloud, . . . with the trumpets.”

15. The discovery was made by making high-precision radial velocity measurements with the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) spectrograph.

16. 13 “‘I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

17. Upon investigating, Wiltshire finds that these experiences are also tricks produced by imported technologies such as luminous paint and Aeolian harps.

18. About 200 C.E., Clement of Alexandria said: “We need one instrument: the peaceful word of adoration, not harps or drums or pipes or trumpets.”

19. The layers of sounds resemble somehow the tones of aeolian harps, only in a more static way as a reference to the radioactive radiation.

20. zZounds has hArmonicas of many shapes and sizes, for players from beginners to pros: blues harps, chromatic, and complete sets in all the keys you need

21. 5 David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before Jehovah with all sorts of juniper-wood instruments, harps, other stringed instruments,+ tambourines,+ sistrums, and cymbals.

22. 13 A strange,(www.Sentencedict.com) roseate light shone through the spaces among their trunks and the wind made in their branches the music of aeolian harps.

23. (c) If an Englishman settles in Australia, he is regarded as a Boor if he criticizes all things Australian and constantly harps on how much better the English are.

24. A prototype tool used to "Arpeggiate" chords in MIDI files so they can be played in FFXIV using Bard Music Player with instruments like harps or lutes

25. After the theme is played twice, the soloist joins the orchestra while playing harmonics on the upper register as the harps and strings quietly play below the solo line.

26. A festive atmosphere pervades the entire Psalm; it begins with the initial Alleluia and then continues with chant, praise, joy, dance, the sound of drums and of harps.

27. 16 David then told the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers to sing out joyfully, accompanied by musical instruments: stringed instruments, harps,+ and cymbals.

28. “The orchestra and choir have taken up a position to the east of the altar, clothed in fine linen with cymbals and stringed instruments, zithers, psalteries, lyres and graceful harps.

29. That idea only came into being 300 years later, and most Islamic scholars see it as the equivalent of people with wings sitting on clouds and strumming harps.

30. Later, the Israelites bring the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem “with joyful shouting and with the sounding of the horn and with . . . playing aloud on stringed instruments and harps.” —1 Chronicles 15:28.

31. + 28 All the Israelites were bringing up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah with joyful shouting,+ with the sound of the horn, with trumpets,+ with cymbals, playing loudly on stringed instruments and harps.

32. 25 Further, David and the chiefs of the groups for the service separated some of the sons of Aʹsaph, Heʹman, and Je·duʹthun+ to serve by prophesying with the harps, the stringed instruments,+ and the cymbals.

33. The Anthropomorphic harps of ancient Egypt and modern Africa represents an example of this visually symbolic approach to instrument making, which has been described as producing “sounding statues.” In Europe Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic carving exists…

34. He has just finished saying to all the people: ‘When you hear the sound of the horns, the harps and the other musical instruments, you are to bow down and worship this gold image.

35. 6 All of these were under the direction of their father for singing at the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps+ for the service of the house of the true God.

36. COROT-9b has a mass of 0.84 times that of Jupiter (MJ) as determined from HARPS spectroscopy, and has a radius of 1.05 times that of Jupiter (RJ) as determined from photometry of the transit light curve.

37. 2 I heard a sound coming out of heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; and the sound that I heard was like singers who accompany themselves by playing on their harps.

38. Accordions, basses, music box toys, cartons (musical instruments), carillons (musical instruments), clarinets, trumpets, double basses, cymbals, flutes, harps, lyres, mandolins, guitars, harmonicas, violins, violas, xylophones, organs, pianos, keyboards (musical instruments) and piano keys, music synthesisers, drums (musical instruments), triangles (musical instruments)

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41. ‘Today, groups of students travel around the world in the bohemian fashion of their ancestors singing serenades accompanied by mandolins, Bandores, tambourines, and guitars.’ ‘Their ancestral knowledge of wood, techniques and music combine to produce guitars, violins or harps, double basses, and Bandores.’

42. 2 And I saw something like a sea of glass+ mingled with fire, and those who are victorious+ over the wild beast and its image+ and the number of its name+ were standing by the sea of glass, holding harps of God.

43. 19 The singers Heʹman,+ Aʹsaph,+ and Eʹthan were to play the copper cymbals;+ 20 and Zech·a·riʹah, Aʹzi·el, She·mirʹa·moth, Je·hiʹel, Unʹni, E·liʹab, Ma·a·seiʹah, and Be·naiʹah played stringed instruments tuned to Alʹa·moth;*+ 21 and Mat·ti·thiʹah,+ E·liphʹe·le·hu, Mik·neʹiah, Oʹbed-eʹdom, Je·iʹel, and Az·a·ziʹah played harps tuned to Shemʹi·nith,*+ to act as directors.