Krogharpe
Thekrogharpewas a type of harp native toNorway,which featured steel strings and a horizontal soundboard.[1]In the modern era German harpistNancy Thymhas reconstructed and played a krogharpe based on an instrument built in 1776 inØsterdalen.
Period description
[edit]A 1916 article inThe Musical Timesdescribed the instrument:
The Krogharp is an antique and uncouth instrument with metal strings and a horizontal sound-board. It is still in use among the peasantry, and with reason; for it is capable of producing great emotional effects, and is peculiarly fitted to be the interpreter of that weird Norwegian music, through which such a deep strain of melancholy runs.
A 1902 German-language encyclopedia described it as "played until recently."[2]
Further reading
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Wilhelm Spemann (1909).Spemanns goldenes Buch der Musik: eine Hauskunde für Jedermann.W. Spemann. p. 706.Retrieved22 April2012.
- ^Hermann Ritter (1902).Allgemeine illustrierte Encyklopädie der Musikgeschichte.M. Schmitz. p. 1.Retrieved22 April2012.