harplike
- a word derived from harp.
Example Sentences
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On “Day of the Living Sky,” hypnotic plucking of a harplike instrument, a scattered flute and an anchoring drumbeat transport listeners to a celestial jungle.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
Produced by Mendoza and Rusty Santos, who has worked with Animal Collective, the song is harmonically and spatially ambiguous, with harplike plucking, swooping electronics and vocals wafting in from all directions.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
The latter’s 1974 single “Kalimba Story,” for example, inspired Williams’s use of the African thumb-piano on the song “Urban Driftwood,” which also features her on the harplike kora.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2021
An unusual workshop demonstration will take place April 5, when the South African guitarist Derek Gripper introduces his transcriptions from the kora — a 21-string, harplike instrument associated with the African griot, or storytelling, tradition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2014
Then the playing began again,—a harplike intermingling of soft sounds.
From A Mountain Woman by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson
