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Despite being unable to read sheet music, Parton played several instruments including the banjo, harp, piano and saxophone.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

“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

“In a traditional film, people would harp on the fact that they just came from a very dark journey and that they don’t have work.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

He did, however, enhance the original orchestration with new colors for harp, organ and brass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, “I have looked over it. In Heaven’s name, don’t harp upon it!”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

And while the archangels are preparing the courtroom and the blessed tune their harps and certain others lie hunching under their fires, the ladies will be dashing hysterically in and out of fitting rooms.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

In a post to X celebrating his release, Santos harped on the idea of redemption.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2025

Perhaps you’ve felt that I’ve harped a bit much on the Astrud Gilberto song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

“Well then don’t get mad at her if she never does what you ask her to do,” Bertha harped, stirring some flour into a gravy base in a frying pan on the stove.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Wiatt, apparently having cold feet, starts harping on culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

"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

You can lose your fan base who might be influenced by your work by harping on them too much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025

But that the larger campaign is harping on this suggests they really think it's smart strategy.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024

Other amusements later, with song and harping that adorn a feast.”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer