harp

Her harp playing, her powerful approach to the organ, her string arrangements and her piano work are all foundational to the genre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 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

Levito is loving the experience so much that she won’t even harp on the fact that she briefly battled food poisoning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

Central to the project are the Irish harp and the qanun, a 78-string Middle Eastern instrument that is played on the lap.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026

She ballet-teetered on her toes to the harp strings plucking in her head, and Vonetta joined her, twirling and leaping.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Their songs weave in Irish lilting, set against a lively mix of drums, fiddles, flutes, harps, banjos, cello and concertina - skills honed over years of playing house parties, pub céilís and traditional festivals.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

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

In the case of “Marty Supreme,” set in the early 1950s, that means a radical use of electronica: sequenced beats, zinging harps and treated choir voices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 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

For instruments that can tune almost instantly, like voices, violins, and trombones, this is not a problem; but it is unworkable for pianos, harps, and other other instruments that cannot make small tuning adjustments quickly.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

"Something that coach Coen's harped on is just going 1-0 every week," says Little.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

Bienemy also harped on several of Howell’s passes being deflected, yelling that there were “way too many balls on the ground.”

From Washington Times ● May 31, 2023

Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, "harped on his absence" in her closing statement to the jury this morning.

From Salon ● May 8, 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

"They are harping on about getting more disabled people in employment," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025

Throughout the hearing, he kept harping on the word "anonymous," implying that the press made up the stories.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025

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

You’ve said your sis won’t stop harping on your solution, which suggests there’s a deeper issue here.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2024

“Still harping on that? If there was anything wrong, don’t you think we’d have heard about it by now?”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck