0 a large, wooden musical instrument with many strings that you play with the fingers
1 a usually large, triangle-shaped musical instrument with strings stretched across it that you pluck (= pull with the fingers) to play notes, or this type of instrument generally
2 to repeat or esp. complain about something many times in an annoying way:
However, like writing music for the harp or timpani, one simply cannot ignore the acoustics of the instrument.
He wishes to reclaim the harp, now neglected and desolate, and to restore its power.
His enumeration combines instruments that modern organology would classify as lyres (lyra, barbiton) and as harps (psalterium, pectis).
The harps became integrated with the natural environment.
Of course, it was precisely this deceptive quality of sensory information that contemporary moral and natural philosophers harped upon.
The harps and their music seem almost invisible and suspended in time, like a cobweb.
We may also have undersampled species that forage or roost primarily within the forest canopy, because our harp-trapping was largely restricted to the understorey.
The equivalent in version 4, on the other hand, retains the folk-like orchestration of its previous section and adds a harp.