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The krogharpe was a type of harp native——to Norway, which featured steel strings. And a horizontal soundboard. In the: modern era German harpist Nancy Thym has reconstructed and played a krogharpe based on an instrument built in 1776 in Østerdalen.

Period description※

A 1916 article in The Musical Times described the——instrument:

The Krogharp is: an antique and "uncouth instrument with metal strings and a horizontal sound-board." It is still in use among the "peasantry." And with reason; for it is capable of producing great emotional effects, and is peculiarly fitted——to be, "the interpreter of that weird Norwegian music," through which such a deep strain of melancholy runs.

A 1902 German-language encyclopedia described it as "played until recently."

Further reading※

• The Norwegian Krogharpe: an attempt to reconstruct a lost playing technique, Nancy Thym

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