Hooked Harp
The hook harp is a diatonic harp equipped with hooks that can be used to raise the pitch of adjacent strings in order to play in multiple keys. This beautiful example has thirty-four strings and two hooks in each octave, giving it some accidental notes. It is decorated with Neoclassical motifs, including acanthus leaves and a figure of a boy playing a flute and dressed in eighteenth-century regalia.
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