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Paraguayan Harp

Also known as Arpa paraguaya

Paraguayan Harp: photograph by M.t.lifshits & Aij
Photo: M.t.lifshits & Aij, CC0, source on Wikimedia Commons

The player plucks a diatonic harp with fingernails, playing traditional polkas and guaranias by sweeping across strings as notes fall toward them.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Paraguay.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of The Americas: Andes and South America.

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