Construction and playing technique

Modern Concert Harfaharfa is approximately triangular in shape, consists of a supporting column ending with a decorative head, a neck in the form of a S-laced and a resonant box (maple wood) that extends from the top. On the neck are rotating discs, each with two steel gaiters (à fourchette, or fork system), which serves to re-align the strings.

The tool is resting between the player's knees and the resonant box is tilted to the player's right arm. Higher, lower lower tones are played with the right hand. However, traditional Welsh or Scottish harps are placed on the left shoulder (the player has a tool above the heart). All fingers are used to play the harp, except for the little finger, which is too short and weak to play, and its movements are less controllable than the movements of the other fingers.

The concert harp typically has 47 strings, weighs about 36 kilograms, measures a height of 1.8 meters, a length of 1.2 meters, and a 55 cm wide end of the resonator. The pitch of all the strings makes about 10,000 Newtons together.