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Agnew, Neville (28 June – 3 July 2004). Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road. The Second International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites. Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, People's Republic of China: Getty Publications (published 3 August 2010). pp. 118 ff. ISBN 978-1-60606-013-1.
Geoffrey W. Bromiley (February 1995). The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. pp. 442–. ISBN 978-0-8028-3785-1. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
Nathanael D. Putnam; Darrell E. Urban; Horace Monroe Lewis (1968). Three Dissertations on Ancient Instruments from Babylon to Bach. F. E. Olds. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
Yar-Shater, Ehsan (2003). Encyclopædia Iranica. Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-0-933273-81-8.
Varadpande, Manohar Laxman (1987). History of Indian Theatre. Abhinav Publications. pp. 14, 55, plate 18. ISBN 9788170172215.
Zvelebil, Kamil (1992). Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature. BRILL. pp. 145ff. ISBN 90-04-09365-6.
The Journal of the Numismatic Society of India. Numismatic Society of India. 2006. pp. 73–75.^{[full citation needed]}
Śrīrāma Goyala (1 August 1992). Reappraising Gupta History: For S.R. Goyal. Aditya Prakashan. p. 237. ISBN 978-81-85179-78-0. ... yazh resembles this old vina ... however it is the Burmese harp which seems to have been handed down in almost unchanged form since ancient times
Yun, Hu-myŏng; Richards, Kyungnyun K.; Richards, Steffen F. (2005). The love of Dunhuang. Cross-Cultural Communications. ISBN 978-0-89304-737-5.
Nicholls, David (19 December 2013). Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium. Routledge. pp. 161 ff. ISBN 978-1-134-41946-3.
Folk Harp Journal. Vol. 99. 1999.
Méndez, Marcela (1 January 2004). Historia del arpa en la Argentina. Editorial de Entre Rios. p. 36. ISBN 978-950-686-137-7.
Schechter, John Mendell (1992). The Indispensable Harp: Historical Development, Modern Roles, Configurations, and Performance Practices in Ecuador and Latin America. Kent State University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-87338-439-1.
Torres, George (27 March 2013). Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music. ABC-CLIO. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-313-08794-3.
Schechter, John Mendell (1992). The Indispensable Harp: Historical development, modern roles, configurations, and performance practices in Ecuador and Latin America. Kent State University Press. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-87338-439-1.
Guerrero Briceño, Fernando F. (1999). El arpa en Venezuela. FundArte, Alcaldía de Caracas. ISBN 9789802533756.
Charry, Eric S. (1 October 2000). Mande Music: Traditional and modern music of the Maninka and Mandinka of western Africa. University of Chicago Press. pp. 76–. ISBN 978-0-226-10162-0.
Shepherd, John; Horn, David; Laing, Dave; Oliver, Paul; Wicke, Peter (8 May 2003). Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Vol. Part 1 Performance and Production. A&C Black. pp. 435 ff. ISBN 978-1-84714-472-0.
Neville Agnew (28 June – 3 July 2004). Conservation of ancient sites on the Silk Road. The Second International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites. Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, People's Republic of China: Getty Publications (published 3 August 2010). pp. 121ff. ISBN 978-1-60606-013-1.
Stanley, John (1 May 1997). Classical Music: An introduction to Classical music through the great composers & their masterworks. Reader's Digest Association. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-89577-947-2.
del Mar, Norman (1983). Anatomy of the Orchestra. University of California Press. pp. 435 ff. ISBN 978-0-520-05062-4.
Koch, John T. (2006). Celtic Culture: A historical encyclopedia. Vol. 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 893 ff. ISBN 978-1-85109-440-0.
Mikishka, Patricia O. (1989). Single, double, and triple harps, 1581–1782: Harps having two or three rows of parallel strings. Part II. Department of Music. Stanford University. p. 48.
Zeitschrift. Breitkopf und Härtel. 1903. p. 196.
Blaze, Louis Edmund. The Story of Lanka: Outlines of the history of Ceylon from the earliest times to the coming of the Portuguese. Asian Educational Services. p. 45. ISBN 978-81-206-1074-3.
Van Vechten, Carl (1919). "On the relative difficulties of depicting heaven and hell in music". The Musical Quarterly. pp. 553ff.
Woodstra, Chris; Brennan, Gerald; Schrott, Allen (2005). All-Music Guide to Classical Music: The definitive guide to classical music. Backbeat Books. pp. 699ff. ISBN 978-0-87930-865-0.

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"lyre; harp". The British Museum. It has four (Hemp) strings and two hide thongs

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Lawergren, Bo. "Angular Harps Through the Ages – A Causal History" (PDF). p. 264. Retrieved 12 August 2011.

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"Music in Prehistoric Armenia". Journal of Literature and Art Studies. 5 (4). 28 April 2015. doi:10.17265/2159-5836/2015.04.003. The mentioned data are confirmed by archaeological evidence on musical instruments (cf. Kushnareva, 2000; Khachatryan, 2001), according to which during Bronze and Iron Ages (ca. 3rd-2nd millennia B.C.) the following stringed, wind and percussive instruments were known in Armenia: lyre, harp, lute, pipe-flute, drum, and bell-shaped objects...The appearance of the harp/lyre must be connected to Near Eastern influences.

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"Juan Cayambe". Discogs.

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Boenig, Robert (April 1996). "The Anglo Saxon Harp". Spectrum. Vol. 71, no. 2. pp. 290–320. doi:10.2307/2865415. JSTOR 2865415.
"Music in Prehistoric Armenia". Journal of Literature and Art Studies. 5 (4). 28 April 2015. doi:10.17265/2159-5836/2015.04.003. The mentioned data are confirmed by archaeological evidence on musical instruments (cf. Kushnareva, 2000; Khachatryan, 2001), according to which during Bronze and Iron Ages (ca. 3rd-2nd millennia B.C.) the following stringed, wind and percussive instruments were known in Armenia: lyre, harp, lute, pipe-flute, drum, and bell-shaped objects...The appearance of the harp/lyre must be connected to Near Eastern influences.
Alvad, Thomas (October 1954). "The Kafir Harp". Man. 54. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: 151–154. doi:10.2307/2795578. JSTOR 2795578. 233.

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"ARCHED HARP OR BOW HARP". The University of Edinburgh, Musical Instruments Museums Edinburgh. 5 wire strings attached to lateral pegs in neck and attached at lower end to perforated wooden plaque anchored into the belly

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"Differences between pedal harps and lever harps". Enjoy the Harp. Retrieved 21 July 2025.

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Bouchaud, Dominig. "Is "Celtic" a myth? The lever harp in Brittany". Harp Blog.

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Ortiz, Alfredo Rolando. "History of Latin American Harps". HarpSpectrum.org. Retrieved 12 December 2014.

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"Harp". Encyclopaedia Iranica.

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Boenig, Robert (April 1996). "The Anglo Saxon Harp". Spectrum. Vol. 71, no. 2. pp. 290–320. doi:10.2307/2865415. JSTOR 2865415.
Alvad, Thomas (October 1954). "The Kafir Harp". Man. 54. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: 151–154. doi:10.2307/2795578. JSTOR 2795578. 233.

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"Ngombi (arched Harp) Fang/Kele people 19th century". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Saùng-Gauk Burmese 19th century". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Ngombi Tsogo mid-20th century". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Marble seated harp player". The Metropolitan Museum.

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Xie Jin. "Reflection upon Chinese Recently Unearthed Konghous in Xin Jiang Autonomous Region". Musicology Department, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. The konghous in Xinjiang ...skin cover...one string has been found. It is made of ox tendon...
Xie Jin. "Reflection upon Chinese Recently Unearthed Konghous in Xin Jiang Autonomous Region". Musicology Department, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. The konghous in Xinjiang are not only similar between themselves，but also alike with the ancient harps in Pazyryk (350 B.C, FIG. 4) [vii], Assyria (650 B.C, FIG. 5), and Olbia (400-200 B.C, FIG. 6)

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"Harp". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
"Harpist". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
"Harper". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2020.

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de Vale, Sue Carole. "Harp". Oxford Music Online. Oxford Music Online / Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

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Magazine, Smithsonian; Gershon, Livia. "Listen to the First Song Ever Recorded on This Ancient, Harp-Like Instrument". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 28 September 2021.

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Vipulananda (1941). "The harps of ancient Tamil-land and the twenty-two srutis of Indian musical theory". Calcutta Review. LXXXI (3).

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"New Sounds: Andreas Vollenweider". Spin (magazine). 1 October 1985. Retrieved 30 January 2020.

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"The History of the Harp". Live.Stanford.edu. Retrieved 26 March 2026.

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"Lyres: The Royal Tombs of Ur". SumerianShakespeare.com. Archived from the original on 4 January 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2012.

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"A Portrait of Andreas Vollenweider". SWI swissinfo.ch. 18 April 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2020.

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"Harp | Introduction". Timbre and Orchestration Resource. Retrieved 13 February 2025.

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Davis N (1986). Gardiner A (ed.). Ancient Egyptian Paintings (PDF). Vol. 3. University of Chicago Press.

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"Muziek voor barokharp". lib.ugent.be. Retrieved 27 August 2020.

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Lawergren, Bo (12 December 2003). "Harp". Encyclopædia Iranica. Archived from the original on 15 August 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
Xie Jin. "Reflection upon Chinese Recently Unearthed Konghous in Xin Jiang Autonomous Region". Musicology Department, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. The konghous in Xinjiang ...skin cover...one string has been found. It is made of ox tendon...
"Lyres: The Royal Tombs of Ur". SumerianShakespeare.com. Archived from the original on 4 January 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
"History of the Harp". internationalharpmuseum.org. International Harp Museum. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
Xie Jin. "Reflection upon Chinese Recently Unearthed Konghous in Xin Jiang Autonomous Region". Musicology Department, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. The konghous in Xinjiang are not only similar between themselves，but also alike with the ancient harps in Pazyryk (350 B.C, FIG. 4) [vii], Assyria (650 B.C, FIG. 5), and Olbia (400-200 B.C, FIG. 6)
"Harp". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
"Harpist". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
"Harper". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2020.

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Montagu, Jeremy (2002). "Harp". In Latham, Alison (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Music. London, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 564. ISBN 0-19-866212-2. OCLC 59376677.

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