When worshippers arrive at Salem Lutheran Church in Tomball for Christmas Eve services, they'll enter more than a sanctuary. They'll be stepping into a musical instrument. Its strings will span the ...

THE harp is such a handsome instrument that some are sold simply to decorate a room. Heretics who do not like the ethereal elegance of harp music often say that it looks better than it sounds. It is ...

Instrument maker Frank Piesik has built a three-string robotic music machine called Greg's Harp where three different actuators excite the strings in different ways to produce sound controlled by a ...

With all due respect to David and the secret chord the biblical hero played to please the Lord, the harp has never exactly been the coolest of instruments. There is a softness, a celestial kind of ...

In the back room of a local music studio on Wednesday, Callie Stadem was encircled by eight small-scale wooden harps, each painted a bright, fun color. Stadem was preparing for the arrival of her ...