🎹 Keyboard & Harp family
Harp
🔊 How it makes sound
Fingers pluck 47 strings. Seven pedals change the strings to sharps or flats.
🎼 Range and clef
Over six octaves. Reads treble and bass clef, like a piano.
🎨 Its timbre colour
Rippling and magical, like water or starlight.
Timbre is the "colour" of a sound, the idea from Lesson 0. A violin and a flute can play the same note, but you can still tell them apart!
🎧 Listen to
Tchaikovsky: harp solo in "Waltz of the Flowers"
💡 Fun fact
Harps are some of the oldest instruments. You met the lyres of Ur in Music Through Time!