Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of guitar invented early in the nineteenth century, in which, by pressing a dital or thumb-key, the pitch of the strings may be chromatically raised. See
dital harp , under dital.
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Examples
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Isabella learns a new instrument something like a guitar, called a harp-lute.
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling
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The rest of the concert was explicitly about the harp, and pre-eminently the Malian harp-lute known as the kora.
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Guinean singer and composer Djeli Mousa Diawara is foremost among world players of the Kora, the African harp-lute of the Manding peoples of the Senegambia.
WeLove-music 2008
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Barber's Sound Affairs ensemble has a parallel range of traditions: the muted tones of viola, double bass and bass clarinet are sharpened not just by keyboard and percussion but by the kora (the west African harp-lute) and the mbira (the
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