Posted on 07/28/2008 8:51:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The harp of Israel goes back to the Tanach. It is written that the first person to play was a man called Yuval who played on a kinor. The next person was King David, who was the one who brought it to a very high level of awareness. He used it as a spiritual instrument to connect to Hashem. Then it went right into the Beit Hamikdash where there were 4,000 Leviim who played the harp. The tribe of Levi taught their children at age three to play on the nevel, the kinor, the shofar, and the silver trumpet. They also had cymbals and they sang. That was the music in the Beit Hamidkash (Temple)... The term kinor would also known as a lyre or lyre in Greek. The nevel is known as a harp today. The kinor is taken from the Bar Kochba coin, the money used in the time of Shimon Bar Kochba and the Roman occupation. It has the imprint of a little kinor on it. In the Talmud it says there were ten strings. In the psalms, many times it says upon a harp of ten strings I will praise thee Hashem. There's something special about the number ten.
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Is it just me, or does that thingie have only eight strings?
Neat - now I have a gift idea for my husband, whose hobbies are music and theology. This would fit both!!
He could start up a new group; "Miles to Go and his Old-Testament orchestra"
Booking at Bar-Mitzvas a speciality.
That was a custom harp made for someone born without thumbs.
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Here's a kinor:
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Great post, thanks.
My adult daughter plays the harp.
When she was learning as a child, it was wonderful.
There are no bad tones on a harp.
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