Comments on: Thingamajig Thursday: the harp

By: nocturnation

nocturnation — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:27:52 +0000

Maybe it’s called a harp because it vaguely resembles a mouth harp.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew%27s_harp

By: Winston

Winston — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:04:15 +0000

And recently, Joanna Newsome has made the harp hip, releasing her second full-length album “Ys” (pronounced “eees”), that critics have fallen in love with. I have too though, it’s a fantastic album that I’ve yet to find any comparisons for, past or present.

Newsome is a classically trained harpist and this new album features five tracks that run from 7 minutes to 16 minutes, each a full length narrative that sounds Shakespearean in vocabulary. It is worth checking out.

By: Sillstaw

Sillstaw — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:44:33 +0000

In case you’re going to the video store/adding stuff to your NetFlix account: Harpo doesn’t play the harp in “Duck Soup,” generally considered their best work; however, he does play piano strings in a harp like manner for about 7 seconds.