Arched harp

(Fr.: harpe arquée; Ger.: Bogenharfe), harp with a curved neck rising away from the resonator, first appearing in Egypt in the middle of the third millennium B.C. The most ancient ones have a spoon-shaped resonator. The horizontally played type appears before the vertically played one. The arched harp disappeared from ancient Egypt and made way for the *angular harp, passing briefly to Greece and Rome. It is now believed to be older than the angular harp. Today it survives among...