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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

“We could harp on the fact that the 10-year Treasury yields are above 4.5%,” said Dan Morgan, senior portfolio manager at Synovus Trust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Despite these hardships, they formed a community, depicted by a slave-cabin diorama and a display of everyday artifacts found on the property, such as tobacco pipes, a jaw harp, pottery and other items.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

We also included instruments like the bassoon, the harp, the trombone and obviously the saxophone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

“I thought I heard my harp down here,” he said.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

Mina resents when Sade harps on the inequities of their childhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 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

She would brush it into such a tower of beauty, people all over heaven would drop their harps just to admire it.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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

“That’s the key to success and is something we have harped on and is the reason we are on this little run.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025

Kavanaugh then pivoted, harping on “detransitioners”—people who transitioned, and then stopped identifying as transgender.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024

I am constantly harping on the fact that L.A. has amazing, curated boutiques like Mohawk General Store, elevated brands like Ghiaia Cashmere blowing up the menswear scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024

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