Credit: Rogers Fund, 1943. Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Comments: Arched Harp (shoulder harp). ca. 1390–1295 B.C. Egypt, New Kingdom, late Dynasty 18.
Credit: Keinmy
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Comments: Angular harp 10th-8th century BC, restored. This image has been modified to change tonal range.
Credit: Dennis Jarvis
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Comments: King David's golden statue shows King David in a royal cape playing his harp. The Old Testament mentions that David played the harp to sooth King Saul.
From Easton: Harp, (Heb. kinnor), the national instrument of the Hebrews. It was invented by Jubal (Genesis 4:21). Some think the word _kinnor_ denotes the whole class of stringed instruments. It was used as an accompaniment to songs of cheerfulness as well as of praise to God (Genesis 31:27; 1 Samuel 16:23; 2 Chronicles 20:28; Psalms 33:2; Psalms 137:2).
In Solomon's time harps were made of almug-trees (1 Kings 10:11, 1 Kings 10:12). In 1 Chronicles 15:21 mention is made of "harps on the Sheminith;" Revised Version, "harps set to the Sheminith;" better perhaps "harps of eight strings." The soothing effect of the music of the harp is referred to 1 Samuel 16:16, 1 Samuel 16:23; 1 Samuel 18:10; 1 Samuel 19:9. The church in heaven is represented as celebrating the triumphs of the Redeemer "harping with their harps" (Revelation 14:2).