Torop-jux

Torop-jux *frame harp of the Ostyak of the U.S.S.R., with swan neck and lateral pegs for 8–10 strings, very similar in form to an illustration in an 8th-c. Anglo-Saxon ms. and a 9th-c. Irish depiction on a reliquary, earliest representations of a frame harp on the British Isles. The Ostyak play the melody with one hand and accompany themselves with the other hand on the 2 highest strings (9, 169). Sort by:DefaultAuthorTitleDateAscendingDescending Anderssen, Otto. The Bowed-Harp. London, 1930…