This is an extraordinarily rare harp-piano by Dietz, Austria or Germany, ca 1840.
I’ve seen many pianos. But I am yet to touch a real harp.
If this hybrid is played like an ordinary piano, where the hammers hit the strings, it should sound like a piano, less like a harp because harp’s strings are plucked.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=0d221a7b-2229-42ef-8c3e-632376e2e9b6)
I’ve seen many pianos. But I am yet to touch a real harp.
If this hybrid is played like an ordinary piano, where the hammers hit the strings, it should sound like a piano, less like a harp because harp’s strings are plucked.
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Piano crossed with a harp - Boing Boing
Rare harp-piano by Dietz, Austria or Germany, ca. 1840.
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Looks kinda cacat…. as if a failed biology test subject.
or maybe it can produce both the sound of piano and harp as well?
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@CLF
yeah .. it is really odd! I guess that’s why it is not popular
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