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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). See the music section below for examples of [[#Manual string stopping|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). See the music section below for examples of [[#Manual string stopping|manual string stopping]]. | ||
== | == Concert (Modern) Konghou == | ||
The Chinese {{W|Konghou#Modern_konghou|concert konghou}} is a pedal harp-lyre hybrid (since it has additional soundboards parallel to the strings) which loops each string from one side to the other, dividing the string into segments of the same pitch on each side. (Note that "{{W|konghou}}" without specifying "concert konghou" or "modern konghou" can refer to any of several quite different instruments.) It is possible to play the segment on one side while pressing against the segment on the other side to increase the tension, shown in the following video being used for vibrato, but in principle also usable for sustained upward pitch bending. | |||
=== Demonstration === | === Demonstration === | ||