Beautiful to look at and incredible in sound – here the greatest pieces written for the harp in classical music history. With its gentle plucking, evocative timbre and dramatic glissandi, the harp has ...

The Unicode Consortium, whose Unicode text encoding standard governs digital text and emojis on devices worldwide, has approved the addition of a harp emoji. It’s expected to be in circulation ...

Wales has an unbroken tradition of harp playing. It was used as a dance instrument and for playing tunes and airs. The tradition owes its survival to the gypsy families of Wales who kept harp ...

There is a subcontrabass tuba which is 7ft tall and normally takes two or even three people to play it. Only four of these tubas remain in the world today, and the only playable one is at Harvard ...

First up the Dubai Rose, Ciara O’Sullivan, a teacher and GAA player, shares a photograph of herself in football kit, jumping in the desert, and plays a tune on the harp. Then it’s the ...