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Henry Greenway (
Henry Greenway (Birmingham, England
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, 1833 - St. Louis, Missouri
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, 1903) was an English-born American harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...
maker. He created a type of chromatic cross-strung harp
The cross-strung harp or chromatic double harp is a multi-course harp that has two rows of strings which intersect without touching. While accidentals are played on the pedal harp via the pedals and on the lever harp with levers, the cross-strung h ...
displaying X-shaped double pilar and double neck. His workshop was at 545 Atlantic Street in Brooklyn
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, N.Y.
See also
*Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...
* Cross-strung harp
The cross-strung harp or chromatic double harp is a multi-course harp that has two rows of strings which intersect without touching. While accidentals are played on the pedal harp via the pedals and on the lever harp with levers, the cross-strung h ...
* Electric harp
The electric harp is an instrument based on its acoustic original. There are both solid-body and hollow body electro-acoustic models available. True electric harps have a solid body versus a hollow body electro-acoustic harp, which can be played ...
* Plucked string instrument
Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing the string in such a way as to give it an impulse that causes the string to vibrate. Plucki ...
* Experimental musical instrument
An experimental musical instrument (or custom-made instrument) is a musical instrument that modifies or extends an existing instrument or class of instruments, or defines or creates a new class of instrument. Some are created through simple modif ...
References
Bibliography
* Mandel Robert (2010), ''Classical & Romantic Instrument Marvels'', Budapest: Kossuth Publishing. * André P. Larson (Spring 1995), "Double Chromatic Harp by Henry Greenway", in: ''South Dakota Musician'', Vol. 29, No. 3, p. 28. * "1994 Acquisitions Include Rare Pianos, Harp, Woodwinds," in: ''The Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter'', vol. 22, no. 2, p. 2. * The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1989), ''A Checklist of American Musical Instruments'', New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. * Barbara Burn, ed. (1989), ''A Checklist of European & American Harps,'' revised ed., New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. * Libin Laurence (1985), ''American Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art'', New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. * Libin Laurence (1979), ''A Checklist of European Harps: 1'', New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. * The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1904), ''Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments: Europe'', vol. 1, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1833 births 1903 deaths Harp makers Musical instrument manufacturing companies of the United States {{US-engineer-stub