Editing Harp (section)

==== Africa ====
{{Main|African harps}}
[[File:Magpetu vona.jpg|right|thumb|A [[Mangbetu people|Mangbetu]] man playing a bow harp]]
A number of types of harps are found in Africa, predominantly not of the three-sided frame-harp type found in Europe. A number of these, referred to generically as [[African harp]]s, are bow or angle harps, which lack forepillars joining the neck to the body.

A number of harp-like instruments in Africa are not easily classified with European categories. Instruments like the West African ''[[Kora (instrument)|kora]]'' and Mauritanian ''[[ardin (harp)|ardin]]'' are sometimes labeled as "spike harp", "bridge harp", or [[harp lute]] since their construction includes a bridge which holds the strings laterally, vice vertically entering the soundboard.<ref name="Charry2000">{{Cite book |last=Charry, Eric S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8F5r27VBBm0C&pg=PA76 |title=Mande Music: Traditional and modern music of the Maninka and Mandinka of western Africa |date=1 October 2000 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-10162-0 |pages=76–}}</ref>