📚 The Harp

Strings on a frame, from Ur to the concert hall: the pedal mechanism and the national traditions.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject harp in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Irish Harp Book	Sheila Larchet Cuthbert	1975	11
	Annals of the Irish Harpers	Charlotte Milligan Fox	1911	9
	The harp	Roslyn Rensch	1950	8
	A list of shape-note hymnals currently in print	Joseph Charles Hickerson	1979	7
	Harps and harpists	Roslyn Rensch	1989	6
	Tree of Strings : Crann Nan Teud	Keith Sanger	2015	6
	Annals of the Irish harpers	Charlotte Milligan Fox	1911	5
	Guide to the Contemporary Harp	Mathilde Aubat-Andrieu	2019	5
	An historical enquiry respecting the performance on the harp in the Highlands of Scotland ..	Gunn, John	1807	4
	Secrets of the Gaelic Harp	Ann Heymann	1988	4
	A Sacred Feast	Kathryn Eastburn	2008	4
	History of the Erard Piano and Harp in Letters and Documents, 1785-1959	Robert Adelson	2015	4
	Musical instruments	Robert Bruce Armstrong	1904	3
	The Irish and Highland harps	Robert Bruce Armstrong	1969	3
	Teach Yourself to Play the Folk Harp	Sylvia Woods	1976	3
	Paraguayan Harp	Alfredo Colman	2012	3
	L' arpa diatonica e l'arpa cromatica	Giorgio Lorenzi	1911	2
	Harfe und Harfenspiel	Hans Joachim Zingel	1932	2
	The harp	Marcel Tournier	1959	2
	Les Instruments à cordes pincées	Hélène Charnassé	1970	2
	Iskusstvo igry na arfe	Vera Dulova	1975	2
	Celtic harps	Pamela L. Feldman	1978	2
	Chords from David's harp	Derek Prince	1983	2
	I Jornadas Nacionales de Arpa, Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid, 29 de enero a 4 de febrero de 1990	Jornadas Nacionales de Arpa (1st 1990 Madrid, Spain)	1993	2
	Y Cymry; braslum o'u hanes o'r oesoedd boreuaf hyd farwolaeth Llywelyn en Llyw Olaf	Stephens, Thomas	1902	1
	Harfe und Harfenspiel, vom Beginn des 16. bis ins zweite Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts	Hans Joachim Zingel	1931	1
	Méthode de harpe	Jacques Georges Cousineau	1968	1
	Folk harps	Gildas Jaffrennou	1973	1
	Ogam, the poets' secret	Seán O'Boyle	1980	1
	A harpist's survival guide to glisses	Kathy Bundock Moore	1981	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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