Harp (disambiguation) explained
A harp is a type of stringed musical instrument.
Harp, harps, HARP, or variation, may also refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
Music
- Blues harp, a style of harmonica-playing in blues
- French harp, or harmonica
- Jew's harp or Jaw harp, an instrument that is placed in the performer's mouth and plucked
- String Quartet No. 10 (Beethoven), nicknamed the "Harp"
- HARP, a 1985 folk album, and an acronym of the artist names, Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, and Pete Seeger
Other arts, entertainment, and media
Brands and enterprises
Geography
Science and technology
- HARP (Hadron Production Experiment), an experiment at the CERN Proton Synchrotron
- HARP algorithm, a medical image analysis algorithm for processing tagged magnetic resonance images
- Heparin affinity regulatory peptide, the protein Pleiotrophin
- Heterodyne Array Receiver Program, a heterodyne array receiver at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
- High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a spectrograph (at La Silla Observatory in Chile) used in astronomy
- High Aspect Ratio Porous Surface (HARPS), an electric thruster system for very small spacecraft
- Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter #2 (HARP2), a wide-angle imaging polarimeter on the NASA satellite Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE)
- Project HARP, a US-Canada ballistics research project famous for its extremely large gun
Other uses
See also