Harp (disambiguation)

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A harp is a type of stringed musical instrument.

Harp or HARP may also refer to:

Places

• Harp Lake, a lake in Canada

People

• Harp (surname)

Art, entertainment, and media

Music

Musical instruments

• French harp, or harmonica
• Jaw harp or Jew's harp, an instrument that is placed in the performer's mouth and plucked

Styles

• Blues harp, a style of harmonica-playing in blues

Works

• String Quartet No. 10 (Beethoven), nicknamed the "Harp"
• HARP, a 1985 folk album, and an acronym of the artist names, Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, and Pete Seeger

Other uses

• Harp (magazine), a former music magazine
• "Harp", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
• High Adventure Role Playing, a role-playing game

Brands and enterprises

• Harps Food Stores, a supermarket chain in the central U.S.
• Harp Lager, a brand of beer

Science and technology

• HARP (Hadron Production Experiment), an experiment at the CERN Proton Synchrotron
• HARP algorithm, a medical image analysis algorithm for processing tagged magnetic resonance images.
• Heparin affinity regulatory peptide, the protein Pleiotrophin
• High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, a spectrograph used for research in astronomy
• Project HARP, a joint American-Canadian ballistic re-entry vehicle research project
• High Aspect Ratio Porous Surface (HARPS), an electric thruster system for very small spacecraft

Other uses

• Harps GAA, an Irish sports club
• Home Affordable Refinance Program, a US government program to help homeowners refinance their mortgages
• Lamp harp

See also

• Harpe (disambiguation)
• Harper (disambiguation)
• Harpsichord
• High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), a communication and surveillance systems research project