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Answer :HARP
Harp, stringed instrument in which the resonator, or belly, is perpendicular, or nearly so, to the plane of the strings. Each string produces one note, the gradation of string length from short to long corresponding to that from high to low pitch. The resonator is usually of wood or skin. In arched, or bow-shaped, harps the neck extends from and forms a curve with the body.
In angular harps, body and neck form an angle. In frame harps (mostly confined to Europe), body and neck are set at an angle and are connected by a column, pillar, or forepillar, that braces against the tension of the strings. Harps lacking a forepillar are strung at relatively low tension, which results in a lower pitch than frame harps. The modern double-action pedal harp combines the basic structure and sound of ancient harps with a complex mechanism in order to obtain a full chromatic range.
Harps were widely used in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, although rare in Greece and Rome; depictions survive from Egypt and Mesopotamia from about 3000 BCE. Many were played in vertical position and plucked with the fingers of both hands, but Mesopotamia also had horizontal harps. Placed on the player’s lap, strings toward the player, they were plucked with a plectrum. Horizontal harps are pictured in India as late as 800 CE but apparently died out in the Middle East about 600 CE. At this same time arched harps fell out of use in the Middle East, but they survive today in Africa, Myanmar (Burma), and a few isolated areas. Angular harps survived until the 19th century in Iran.
More clues
- HARPS Angel’s instruments
- ARPAS Italian angels’ instruments
- ARPA Angel’s instrument, in Italy
- KRIS “Charlie’s Angels” angel
- HAIR 58 Angel’s _ pasta
- RAVE Angel’s delight
- HALO Angel’s prop in a Christmas play
- FLOP Angel’s bad news
- S R O S Angel’s delights, in short
- TESS Angel’s lover, in literature
- ROBE Angel’s garb
- LADD Fawcett’s “Charlie’s Angels” successor
- DREW Lucy and Cameron’s “Charlie’s Angels” costar
- DIAZ “Charlie’s Angels” film costar
- G O F F Co-creator of “Charlie’s Angels”
- ONLY “— Angels Have Wings”
- CAGE “City of Angels” star
- RYAN “City of Angels” star
- CITY “_ of Angels”
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