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; [https://www.youtube.com/@daniellekuntz/ Danielle Kuntz] | ; [https://www.youtube.com/@daniellekuntz/ Danielle Kuntz] | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jjAOcndfwzM ''How to play pedal buzzes on the harp''] (2023) | * [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jjAOcndfwzM ''How to play pedal buzzes on the harp''] (2023) | ||
=== Limited microtonality === | |||
Thus, microtonality on most harps is limited to whatever can be achieved by retuning the 7 strings per octave. | |||
==== Music ==== | |||
; [[Nick, The NRG]] | |||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5itQAT_Ns2c ''Microtonal Semi-improvisation on Harpsicle/Folk Harp!''] (2019) (the harp is tuned to 1/1, 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, 14/9, 7/4) | |||
== A solution that does not yet exist == | |||
An instrument called a "fluid harp" exists that has sliders to enable continuously-variable pitch variation on each string, as demonstrated in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzhlYaevFR8 ''Fluid Harp – Adjustable Microtonal Harp''] (2017), but it is actually a zither and produces a very different tonal quality from a harp; as such, it belongs to a page about zithers, and is not further covered here. In principle, such a mechanism — or better yet, a pedal-actuated slider mechanism — could be applied to an actual harp, but so far, none have been built. | |||
== One solution: (some) lever harps == | == One solution: (some) lever harps == | ||
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=== Demonstration === | === Demonstration === | ||
; [https://www.youtube.com/@HarpistKT Kristan Toczko] | ; [https://www.youtube.com/@HarpistKT Kristan Toczko] | ||
* | * [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pelElN6Wr68 ''Levers AND bends!''] (2024) | ||
== Another solution: | == Another solution: manual string stopping == | ||
Another possible solution is to wear a metal cylinder on one finger and use it to stop pairs of adjacent strings. This enables any amount of pitch bend (potentially while plucking these and nearby strings with other fingers on the same hand), and can be used on any harp, although it only applies to one pair of strings at a time for each metal tube (conceivably, one could wear a metal tube on one finger on each hand to do this with two pairs of strings). | Another possible solution is to wear a metal cylinder on one finger and use it to stop pairs of adjacent strings. This enables any amount of pitch bend (potentially while plucking these and nearby strings with other fingers on the same hand), and can be used on any harp, although it only applies to one pair of strings at a time for each metal tube (conceivably, one could wear a metal tube on one finger on each hand to do this with two pairs of strings). | ||
=== Music === | === Music === | ||
; [https://calyane.com/en/bio/ Caroline Lizotte] | ; [https://calyane.com/en/bio/ Caroline Lizotte] | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHxUnzVWHdQ ''KHEÍRŌN opus 53, Nocturne pour harpe | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHxUnzVWHdQ ''KHEÍRŌN opus 53, Nocturne pour harpe – Caroline Lizotte (Juliette Duguay, harpiste)''] (2026) (uses the metal tube on finger technique) | ||
== Yet another solution: more strings == | |||
The {{W|cross-strung harp}} or chromatic double harp foregoes changing the pitch of strings to get accidentals and instead has more strings — usually one row of 7 strings per octave tuned to a diatonic scale of the natural notes and one row of 5 strings per octave tuned to a pentatonic scale of the sharp/flat notes. (A few have been made that instead have twin whole-tone scales.) Since the strings are only tuned using the normal tuning mechanism (unless one stops the strings with a metal tube as above), it is in principle possible to tune the strings to sound in a 12 notes per octave subset of tuning systems other than 12edo, including complete tuning systems having less than 12 notes per octave. | |||
The {{W|triple harp}} (including the Welsh version) has even more strings, with 2 outer rows of 7 strings each normally tuned to the natural notes and a middle row normally tuned to the flat/sharp notes as indicated above. Again, since the strings are only tuned using the normal tuning mechanism (unless one stops the strings with a metal tube as above), it is in principle possible to tune the strings to sound in a 19 notes per octave subset of tuning systems other than 12edo, as well as complete tuning systems of up to 19 notes per octave, including [[19edo]]. | |||
Unfortunately, no music or other demonstration appears to be available at this time for these types of harps. | |||
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