Editing Harp (section)

=== Concert harp ===
{{Main|Pedal harp}}
[[File:Lavinia Meijer playing the harp, 2011.jpg|upright|thumb|[[Lavinia Meijer]] playing the harp]]
The ''concert'' harp is a technologically advanced instrument, particularly distinguished by its use of pedals, foot-controlled levers which can alter the pitch of given strings, making it [[chromatic]] and thus able to play a wide body of classical repertoire. The pedal harp contains seven pedals that each affect the tuning of all strings of one [[pitch-class]]. The pedals, from left to right, are D, C, B on the left side and E, F, G, A on the right. Pedals were first introduced in 1697 by Jakob Hochbrucker of Bavaria.<ref name="Stanley1997">{{Cite book |last=Stanley |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnrZAAAAMAAJ |title=Classical Music: An introduction to Classical music through the great composers & their masterworks |date=1 May 1997 |publisher=Reader's Digest Association |isbn=978-0-89577-947-2 |page=24}}</ref> In 1811 these were upgraded to the "double action" pedal system patented by Sébastien Erard.<ref>{{Cite web |last=de Vale |first=Sue Carole |title=Harp |url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/45738pg5 |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 December 2020 |website=Oxford Music Online |series=Oxford Music Online / Grove Music Online |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>

[[File:Harpo Marx playing the harp.jpeg|left|upright|thumb|[[Harpo Marx]] would run around performing zany slapstick pantomime comedy with his brothers, then sit down to play beautiful music on the concert harp.]]
The addition of pedals broadened the harp's abilities, allowing its gradual entry into the classical orchestra, largely beginning in the 19th century. The harp played little or no role in early classical music (being used only a handful of times by major composers such as Mozart and Beethoven), and its use by [[Cesar Franck]] in his Symphony in D&nbsp;minor (1888) was described as "revolutionary" despite the harp having seen some prior use in orchestral music.<ref name=Mar1983>{{cite book |last=del Mar |first=Norman |author-link=Norman Del Mar |title=Anatomy of the Orchestra |year=1983 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-05062-4 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vsVzqUN1GBcC&pg=PA435 435] ff }}</ref> In the 20th century, the pedal harp found use outside of classical music, entering musical comedy films in 1929 with [[Harpo Marx|Arthur "Harpo" Marx]], jazz with [[Casper Reardon]] in 1934,<ref>{{cite web |title=Casper Reardon |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/casper-reardon-mn0001839999 |access-date=19 December 2019 |series=Biography & History |website=AllMusic |lang=en-us}}</ref> [[the Beatles]] 1967 single "[[She's Leaving Home]]", and several works by [[Björk]] which featured harpist [[Zeena Parkins]]. In the early 1980s, Swiss harpist [[Andreas Vollenweider]] exposed the concert harp to large new audiences with his popular new age/jazz albums and concert performances.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 April 2008 |title=A Portrait of Andreas Vollenweider |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/a-portrait-of-andreas-vollenweider-/6596504 |access-date=30 January 2020 |website=SWI swissinfo.ch |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1 October 1985 |title=New Sounds: Andreas Vollenweider |url=https://www.spin.com/2019/10/new-sounds-andreas-vollenweider/ |access-date=30 January 2020 |website=Spin (magazine) |ref=Spin Oct. 1985 Vollenweider}}</ref>