Harpolyre

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Harpolyre by André Augustin Chevrier (left, around 1830), now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . A lyre guitar at the bottom right

The Harpolyre is a box necklace loud with three necks and a total of 21 strings with frets are tapped.

General

A similar plucked instrument is the guitar harp . The harpolyre is not regarded as a harp in the field of instrument science and is considered to be a piercing lute in the Hornbostel-Sachs system . Gregg Miner created a new class of instruments for the Harpolyre, which he calls fretted harp guitars .

The three guitar necks of the Harpolyre are all fretted. The first neck has seven strings, the middle neck has six, and the third neck has eight strings. The middle neck is tuned like a conventional guitar, the first neck is chromatic and the third neck is tuned diatonic .

history

Jean François Salomon (1781–1831), a guitar teacher from Besançon , applied for a patent in 1829 for the Harpolyre, which was first built by André Augustin Chevrier . Fernando Sor wrote ten pieces for the instrument.

literature

  • Matanya Ophee: Homage au Beau Sexe. In: Guitar & Laute 10, 1988, issue 2, pp. 15–24 (on the history of the lyre guitar and the harp guitar ); here: p. 21 f. (to the Harpo Lyre )

Web links

Commons : Harpolyre  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.harpguitars.net/history/org/org-harpolyre.htm Gregg Miner Harpolyres