In other respects, this harp reflects the one fashioned nearly five thousand years ... notes archaeologists believe may have been the Sumerian equivalent of our modern scale.

the harp instructor at the storied Cass Tech harp program says, anyway. On Saturday, Cleaver instructed six young Detroit harpists to play scales — "the musical alphabet," she said — on harps ...

To change note on a harp, the player presses down one of the instrument’s seven pedals, which control the pitches of its 47 strings. Each pedal is named after one note of the scale. Unless the player ...