Editing Harp (section)

==== Americas ====
In the Americas, harps are widely but sparsely distributed, except in certain regions where the harp traditions are very strong. Such areas include [[Mexico]], the [[Andes|Andean]] region, [[Venezuela]], and [[Paraguay]]. They are derived from the [[Baroque]] harps that were brought from Spain during the colonial period.<ref name="Nicholls2013">{{Cite book |last=Nicholls |first=David |title=Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium |date=19 December 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-41946-3 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wB9mAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA161 161] ff}}</ref> Detailed features vary from place to place.
[[File:Paraguayan harp 1.jpg|thumb|Paraguayan harp]]
The [[Paraguayan harp]] is that country's [[List of national instruments (music)|national instrument]], and has gained a worldwide reputation, with international influences alongside folk traditions. They have around 36&nbsp;strings, are played with fingernails, and with a narrowing spacing and lower tension than modern Western harps, and have a wide and deep soundbox that tapers to the top.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HkIqAQAAIAAJ |title=Folk Harp Journal |date=1999 |volume=99}}</ref>

The harp is also found in Argentina,<ref name="Méndez2004">{{Cite book |last=Méndez, Marcela |title=Historia del arpa en la Argentina |date=1 January 2004 |publisher=Editorial de Entre Rios |isbn=978-950-686-137-7 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ivlekn7J8XkC&pg=PA36 36]}}</ref> though in Uruguay it was largely displaced in religious music by the organ by the end of the 18th&nbsp;century.<ref name="Schechter1992">{{Cite book |last=Schechter |first=John Mendell |title=The Indispensable Harp: Historical Development, Modern Roles, Configurations, and Performance Practices in Ecuador and Latin America |date=1992 |publisher=Kent State University Press |isbn=978-0-87338-439-1 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=59F-IxIgKOAC&pg=PA36 36]}}</ref> The harp is historically found in Brazil, but mostly in the south of the country.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ortiz |first=Alfredo Rolando |title=History of Latin American Harps |url=http://www.harpspectrum.org/folk/History_of_Latin_American_Harps.shtml |access-date=12 December 2014 |publisher=HarpSpectrum.org}}</ref>

[[File:Meg with Andean harp (4134119578).jpg|thumb|Andean harp]]
The [[Andean harp]] (Spanish/{{langx|qu|arpa}}), also known as the Peruvian harp, or indigenous harp, is widespread among peoples living in the highlands of the [[Andes]]: [[Quechua people|Quechua]] and [[Aymara people|Aymara]], mainly in [[Peru]], and also in [[Bolivia]] and [[Ecuador]]. It is relatively large, with a significantly increased volume of the resonator box, which gives basses a special richness. It usually accompanies love dances and songs, such as [[huayno]].<ref name="Torres2013">{{Cite book |last=Torres |first=George |title=Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music |date=27 March 2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-08794-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=MX5BXxjwV9cC&pg=PA14 14]}}</ref> One of the most famous performers on the Andean harp was [[Juan Cayambe]] ([[Pimampiro Canton]], [[Imbabura Province]], Ecuador<ref>{{Cite web |title=Juan Cayambe |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/3491434 |work=Discogs |language=en}}</ref>)

The {{lang|es|arpa jarocha}} is typically played while standing. In southern Mexico (Chiapas), there is a very different indigenous style of harp music.<ref name="Schechter1992 a">{{Cite book |last=Schechter |first=John Mendell |title=The Indispensable Harp: Historical development, modern roles, configurations, and performance practices in Ecuador and Latin America |date=1992 |publisher=Kent State University Press |isbn=978-0-87338-439-1 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=59F-IxIgKOAC&pg=PA201 201]}}</ref>

{{anchor|Venezuelan harps}} The harp arrived in Venezuela with Spanish colonists.<ref name=hc202007 /> There are two distinct traditions: the {{lang|es|arpa llanera}} ('harp of the [[Llanos]]’, or plains) and the {{lang|es|arpa central}} ('of the central area').<ref name="Briceño1999" /> By the 2020s, three types of harps are typically found:<ref name=hc202007 />
* the traditional '''llanera harp''', made of [[Cedar wood]] and has 32&nbsp;strings, originally of the [[Gut string|gut]], but in modern times are of nylon. It is used to accompany both dancers and singers playing [[joropo]] music, a traditional form of Colombian-Venezuelan music, also known as llanera music.<ref name=hc202007 />
* the {{lang|es|arpa central}} (also known as {{lang|es|arpa mirandina}} 'of [[Miranda State]]’, and {{lang|es|arpa tuyera}} 'of the [[Tuy Valleys]]’) is strung with wire in the higher register.<ref name="Briceño1999">{{Cite book |last=Guerrero Briceño |first=Fernando F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWBaAAAAMAAJ |title=El arpa en Venezuela |date=1999 |publisher=FundArte, Alcaldía de Caracas |isbn=9789802533756}}</ref>
* the Venezuelan electric harp<ref name=hc202007>{{Cite journal |last=Reese |first=Allison |year=2021 |title=Venezuelan Virtuoso <!-- Used the printed journal article as a source in July 2021; but this link to the article exists, but is behind a paywall: |url=https://harpcolumn.com/blog/venezuelan-virtuoso/ --> |journal=Harp Column |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=18–23}}</ref>