Harp vs Flute - What's the difference?
harp | flute |
A musical instrument consisting of an upright frame strung with strings that are stroked or plucked with the fingers.
(label) A harmonica.
(label) A grain sieve.
To repeatedly mention a subject.
(label) To play on (a harp or similar instrument)
(label) To play (a tune) on the harp.
(label) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
(musical instruments) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
* Alexander Pope
A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
a lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a can escape
(architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
A long French bread roll.
An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
To play on a .
To make a flutelike sound.
To utter with a flutelike sound.
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To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
As a proper noun harp
is for a player of the harp.As a verb flute is
.As an adjective flute is
reedy (of a voice).harp
English
(wikipedia harp)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* harpistSee also
* lyreVerb
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) flaute, from (etyl) flaut, ultimately from three possibilities: * Blend of Provencal * From Latin * Imitative.Noun
(en noun)- The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around.
- (Simmonds)