Harp
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A harp is a multi-string musical instrument. It is very popular in Westeros amongst all of society, and is often used to accompany a song. The “high harp” is also mentioned, it makes soft sweet sounds. [1]
Contents
Characters that play the harp
- Prince Rhaegar Targaryen – played the high harp with silver strings
- Queen Naerys Targaryen
- Domeric Bolton – played the high harp
- Tom of Sevenstreams – plays a woodharp
- Leonette Fossoway – plays the high harp
- Sansa Stark – plays the high harp
- Hamish the Harper
- Marillion – plays a woodharp
- Symon Silver Tongue – plays a twelve-stringed woodharp.[2]
- Dareon – plays a woodharp
- Unnamed brother on the Quiet Isle – plays the high harp
- Rylona Rhee
References in the books
A Song of Ice and Fire
- Prince Rhaegar appears in one of Daenerys Targaryen's visions in the House of the Undying. At the end of the vision he goes to the window seat picks up a harp and runs his fingers lightly over its silver strings. Sweet sadness fills the room as the vision fades, only the music lingers behind.
- Lady Lysa Tully once sent Tom of Sevenstreams up the high road, where the Mountain clans took his gold, horse and clothes. He walked up to the Gates of the Moon with nothing but his harp. There the guards made him sing two songs before letting him pass.[3]
- When Leonette Fossoway comes to King's Landing she teaches the high harp to Sansa Stark. [4]
- Music soothes Lord Robert Arryn, the high harp especially. [5]
Quotes
- Ser Barristan Selmy
Many a night she had watched Prince Rhaegar in the hall, playing his silver-stringed harp with those long, elegant fingers of his. Had any man ever been so beautiful? [7]
- Cersei
At the welcoming feast, the prince had taken up his silver-stringed harp and played for them. A song of love and doom, Jon Connington recalled, and every woman in the hall was weeping when he put down the harp. [8]
References and Notes
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 31, Brienne VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 32, Tyrion IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 43, Arya
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 6, Sansa I.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 41, Alayne II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 42, Daenerys IV, p 486.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 24, Cersei V.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 61, The Griffin Reborn.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 10, Sansa I.