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It's a corruption of jaw harp, which is what some people still call it.

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15y ago

The harp is laid out so that all the strings are available to the fingers in an organized fashion. Thus it is easy to play chords, and by pulling the strings one-at-a-time, to arpeggiate them. Harp is a shortening of the term arpeggio.

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I believe that the Harpsichord got its name from the word Harp and chord which means string

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