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THE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS OF ACOUSTICS - H. H. Arnold ...

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524 18. Music and Musical InstrumentsFigure 18.13. Plucked-string instruments: lyre, lute, and harp.The harp, often portrayed as being the instrument of angels, consists of stringsstretched vertically upon a triangular frame and connected to a soundboard constitutingthe lower leg of the triangular frame. The soundboard is quite small, andso the strings are not highly damped and the sound from each string persists for arather long time, yielding a rather mellow tone. The modern harp is usually providedwith seven pedals that actuate a transposing mechanism for shortening thestrings in two stages.The mechanism for shortening the strings is illustrated in Figure 18.14. In panelA of the figure the string is positioned at its maximum length. Depressing the pedalhalfway causes disk 1 to rotate along with the pins attached thereto, so the stringis shortened by a semitone as shown in panel B. When the pedal is depressed allthe way, disk 2 is rotated along with its attached pin, thus shortening the string

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