!!!Harfe

Harp, one of the oldest stringed instruments, since the Middle Ages 
traditionally played by jesters and travelling musicians, influenced 
the Alt-Wiener Harfenisten (Old Vienna Harpists) ( Baenkelsaenger). 
Today the harp has almost completely disappeared from traditional folk 
music, it is, if at all, only played in western Austria. Tirolean 
instrument makers developed the hooked harp towards the end of the 
17%%sup th/%  century, a forerunner of the pedal harp still built in 
the Tirol today. As an instrument of art music, the harp became 
generally accepted in Austria mainly in the late 18%%sup th/%  century 
and in the first half of the 19%%sup th/%  century. In the Biedermeier 
period the harp was particularly popular with upper-class women and 
girls.


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