The usual color coding for a traditional harp is Red for the C-strings and Blue for the F-strings.

(I'm not sure there is a strict color code and) I have seen harps with string of gold, silver and black too.

Yes.

The construction and playing method of these instruments are quite different:

* Harp: Strings are plucked by the player

* Violin: Strings are bowed by the player * Piano: Mechanical hammers hit the strings, played by the player

Yes- The harp is an instrument for which the hieroglyphs can be seen on the wall in certain monuments in Egypt. I would say that with the pyramids being over 5,000 years old that would make the harp a very old instrument as well.

The distinctive feature of the harp family, which sets harps apart from all other instruments, is the fact that the strings run perpendicular to (away from) the soundboard, rather than parallel to the soundboard.

Another unusual feature of harps is that the strings are tuned to a diatonic scale, and various mechanisms are used to change the length of the strings so that all the notes of the chromatic scale can be played.

Unlike most string instruments, harps have no frets or fingerboard.

It sounds like a guitar but it is more gentle and calm.It is also like a piano because it has high and low sound.

A chordophone is any musical instrument which makes sounds by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between 2 points.

A stringed instrument is any musical instrument that has a string.

wood bodies; usually have nylon, cat gut, and wire strings; in harp history there have been glass harps, but are dangerous and will kill you because of the sound waves dissrupt your nervous system or something....

Small harps (less than 26 strings) only have to read treble (G) clef.

Larger lever harps (27 to 38 strings) and pedal harps (40 to 48 strings) read the grand staff, just like a piano. Concert pedal harps have a range of six and a half octaves.

lyre

7 Pedals

the lyre was made 1400 BC

the harp was made 3000 BC

so the harp is older.

Strings

The harpsichord is a stringed, specifically plucked stringed, instrument, like a guitar.

Percussion instruments are those where you have to hit something to make the sound. So drums are percussive, obviously, but less obviously the piano is also percussion, because the sound is made by striking the strings. Harpsichord is not percussive because the strings are plucked, not struck.

Lyon & Healy is best known as a harp maker, although it seems at least some time in the past they did produce a number of "white labeled" pianos - that is, pianos produced by a private company and labeled with the Lyon & Healy name. Unfortunately, serial number information isn't readily available online, though the Bluebook of Pianos does offer a free lookup service, if you're so inclined to inquire directly (see links for reference).

All European stringed instruments were made of locally-sourced hardwoods, not plywood like modern instruments. For a harp this involved laboriously carving a soundbox from a solid piece of hardwood and adding a frame and soundboard; the soundboard had to be carefully carved to an even paper-thin thickness from a solid plank of softwood such as pine.

Peg holes were drilled in the frame and wooden pegs fitted before the strings were attached. These would be made of twisted animal intestines (often from sheep) - an unpleasant and messy job. Welsh harps used horsehair for the strings.

The pieces of the harp would be glued together using very strong casein glue, derived from milk or cheese. This glue works very well if kept dry - so no instrument would ever be used outside in wet weather.

It is a large instrument and would obstruct the view (by the audience) of other instruments and players.

There are many different sizes and styles of harp. Typically the larger ones, like in a symphony orchestra, do have pedals while smaller ones do not. The pedals facilitate a wider range of notes than what you could get without them.

You know how on a piano, middle C sounds like it's in between the low and high notes? Well, that's because it is. The notes below middle C have low pitched sounds just as the higher notes above middle C, become higher pitched.

Same goes for the harp. The high notes come from the strings above middle C. They're shorter and thinner so they sound higher and don't resonate as long.

All of these instruments have strings on them. However, the notes for these instruments are measured differently. The violin and double bass are measured in treble clef, viola is measured in alto clef and is the only instrument that does measure in alto clef, and the cello measures in bass clef.

it has been made lighter and they have add more strings

There are plenty of how-to guides out there to help you out. Check the related links for a really great one from jaw harp guide.