Harmonica vs. Harp — What's the Difference?

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica include diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions.

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, including standing or sitting and in orchestras or concerts.

A small rectangular instrument consisting of a row of free reeds set back in air holes, played by exhaling or inhaling. Also called mouth harp, mouth organ; also called regionally French harp.

A musical instrument consisting of a frame supporting a graduated series of parallel strings, played by plucking with the fingers. The modern orchestral harp has an upright frame, with pedals which enable the strings to be retuned to different keys.

A glass harmonica.

Another term for harmonica

An instrument consisting of tuned strips of metal or glass fixed to a frame and struck with a hammer.

A marine mollusc which has a large vertically ribbed shell with a wide aperture, found chiefly in the Indo-Pacific.

A musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note

Talk or write persistently and tediously on (a particular topic)

A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.

Play on a harp

A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

An instrument having an upright triangular frame consisting of a pillar, a curved neck, and a hollow back containing the sounding board, with usually 46 or 47 strings of graded lengths that are played by plucking with the fingers.

A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones; it is now called the glass harmonica, to distinguish it from the common harmonica, formerly called the harmonicon.

Any of various ancient and modern instruments of similar or U-shaped design.

A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

(Informal)A harmonica.

A small wind musical instrument shaped like a flat bar with holes along the thin edges, held in the hand and producing notes from multiple vibrating reeds arranged inside along its length; it was formerly called the harmonicon. See harmonicon.

Something, such as a pair of vertical supports for a lampshade, that resembles a harp.

A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

To play a harp.

(musical instrument) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body

Any instrument of the same musicological type.

(colloquial) A harmonica.

(Scotland) A grain sieve.

To repeatedly mention a subject.

(transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument).

(transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.

To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.

A grain sieve.

To play on the harp.

To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; - usually with on or upon.

To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

A pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

Come back to;

Play the harp;