Welsh harp

British  

noun

1. a type of harp in which the strings are arranged in three rows, used esp for the accompaniment of singing, improvisation on folk tunes, etc

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Example Sentences

He attracted headlines by doling out tax funds to every group imaginable, including a gay community center, a Welsh harp society, a graffiti workshop and an organization called Babies Against the Bomb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like the Elegy, his poem of The Bard was for several years on the literary easel, and he was accidentally led to finish it by hearing a blind harper performing on a Welsh harp.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

Its walls are triangular in shape, being said to resemble a Welsh harp; they are fifteen feet thick, and are strengthened by twenty-one towers.

From A Yacht Voyage Round England by Kingston, William Henry Giles

This bore on its large gem an engraving of a Welsh harp, below which was the motto in Welsh, "The language of the soul is in its strings."

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)

Here are a violin, violoncello, horn, and cornopean; there an old Welsh harp and unstrung guitar.

From Gladys, the Reaper by Beale, Anne