harp
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“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
We also included instruments like the bassoon, the harp, the trombone and obviously the saxophone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
He did, however, enhance the original orchestration with new colors for harp, organ and brass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Alice McLeod was a highly gifted and accomplished pianist who later became renowned for her mastery of the harp.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
“Your gallant tales are worth all the harp strings in Prydain. And you, Taran and Doli, must promise to tell me more of your famous deeds. But first, I must find Lord Gwydion.”
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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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
So there’s violins, there’s harpsichord, there’s harps — there’s a lot in the arrangements that make it feel older or classic or something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
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
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
“So everything happens for a reason and we’ll all go live in the clouds and play harps and live in mansions?”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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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
The coach who harped on building “championship habits” said the Lakers have delivered that standard in just 16 games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
You've harped on a lot for a while.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2023
I harped on this so loud and long that my exhausted father, in desperate need of peace, said, “All right, Callie. I’ll pay you a nickel.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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"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
Kavanaugh then pivoted, harping on “detransitioners”—people who transitioned, and then stopped identifying as transgender.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024
But, he also painted a broader picture of why he is concerned about increased regulation, harping back to Amazon’s blocked acquisition of iRobot, the Boston-based maker of the autonomous vacuum cleaners Roomba.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
They probably also thought there was no need to keep harping on about the union being perpetual.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023
The background was hazy, a sea of dim faces none of whom I knew, and there was the slow drone of the band harping out a waltz that never finished, that went on and on.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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