Patent ID: 7674962

Claim:
A harp comprising: a soundboard; a neck extending outwardly from a top end of the soundboard; a column extending downwardly from a distal end of the neck; a foot coupled to a bottom end of the column and to a bottom end of the soundboard; a plurality of tuning pegs coupled along a top surface of the neck; a plurality of strings, each string being coupled at one end to the neck and coupled at another end to the soundboard; and a plurality of bridges coupled along a top surface of a top portion of the soundboard, wherein each string has a separate corresponding bridge, and wherein each bridge is a wire that is positioned at a predetermined distance from the top surface of the top portion of the soundboard in order to contact its corresponding string at a predetermined point on the string; wherein pressing a string against its corresponding wire bridge raises the pitch of the string by a semitone; and wherein each predetermined point of contact between each string and its corresponding wire bridge depends upon a note of the string.