Ancient Greek harps

rdf:langString Ancient Greek harps

rdf:langString Psalterion

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rdf:langString modern depiction of relief sculpture showing Greek harp

rdf:langString African enanga from Ganda people

rdf:langString Epigonion, 430 B.C.

rdf:langString Epigonion, circa 430 B.C.

rdf:langString Possible trigonon frame harp

rdf:langString Possible trigonon harp

rdf:langString bow harp similar to enanga

rdf:langString Art from Greek vase showing a woman playing triangular frame-harp

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rdf:langString Muse with a harp. The photo of the painted vase shows that the open angular harp was a frame harp. 5th century B.C.

rdf:langString A greek bow harp from the 5th century B.C. Possible sambuca.

rdf:langString Open angular-harp. A muse with a harp. Text following image: "The trigonon consisted originally of an angular frame..."

rdf:langString Epigonion, circa 430 B.C.

rdf:langString Greek vertical bow harp, circa 5th century BCE.

rdf:langString Woman with cithara and sambuca . Roman fresco from Pompeii, 1st century CE.

rdf:langString Woman playing triangular frame-harp, a psaltērion or trigōnon, in red-figure pottery from Apulia, ca. 320–310 BC C. Anzi .

rdf:langString Open angular-harp. Image with open-harp considered possible trigonon in the Grove New Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments.

rdf:langString Epigonion, 430 B.C. with a symmetrical belly. From a red-figure nuptial basin by the Lautros Painter . Athens National Archaeological Museum.

rdf:langString Ennanga harp, 19th century, Ganda people of Ughanda.

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rdf:langString Angular harps

rdf:langString Bow harps

rdf:langString Spindle harps

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rdf:langString Peleus Painter ARV 1039 13 Musaios with Melousa and Terpsichore - woman between two youths .jpg

rdf:langString Ennanga, 19th century, Ganda people.png

rdf:langString Epigonion with 2nd stringing pattern.jpg

rdf:langString Epigonion.jpg

rdf:langString Frame harp from an ancient Greek vase.jpg

rdf:langString Greek Plaque, c. 5th Century BCE. 500 Harp.jpg

rdf:langString Greek bow harp.jpg

rdf:langString Greek open angular harp.jpg

rdf:langString Pompei-suonatrice lyre and harp.jpg

rdf:langString *Psalterion *trigonos

rdf:langString The psalterion (Greek ψαλτήριον) is a stringed, plucked instrument, an ancient Greek harp. Psalterion was a general word for harps in the latter part of the 4th century B.C. It meant "plucking instrument." In addition to their most important stringed instrument, the seven-stringed lyre, the Greeks also used multi-stringed, finger-plucked instruments: harps. The general name for these was the psalterion. Ancient vase paintings often depict – almost always in the hands of women – various types of harps. Names found in written sources include pektis, trigonos, magadis, sambuca, epigonion. These names could denote instruments of this type. Unlike the lyres, the harp was rarely used in Greece. It was seen as an "outside instrument" from the Orient. It also touched on Greek social mores, being used mainly by women, both upper-class women as well as hetaerae entertainers. There was a group of women known as psaltriai, female pluckers of the instrument who could be hire for parties. Anacreon, poet of drinking and love (and infatuation, disappointment, revelry, parties, festivals, and observations of everyday people), sang of playing the Lydian harp and pektis in his works. The "most important" harps were the psaltêrion, the mágadis and the pēktis. The Latin equivalent of the word, psalterium, has been the name of many-stringed box zithers or board zithers since the Middle Ages.

rdf:langString Ancient Greece with possible input from Egypt and nearby Asia

rdf:langString Harps, the plane of the strings lies perpendicular to the resonator's surface; the harp has a pillar.