History of king davids harp

In the Fields of Ancient Days

Upon the green meadows of Israel long ago, peaceful shepherds sung their songs and played their harps...

The mystical sounds of the harp had been heard from time immemorial. Yuval, one of the great-grandchildren of Adam and Eve, “was the ancestor of all who play kinnor and ugav” (Genesis 4:20-21).

Generations later, a young shepherd named David was inspired by the harp’s peaceful and healing sounds. Wherever David went, he would take his harp with him, and wherever he slept at night, he would hang it on a tree branch above him.

In the middle of the night, as the wind changed direction, it would blow across the strings, and the harp would begin to be played by the wind. David would awaken with inspiration to these mystical sounds, pick up his harp, and sing his deepest feelings to G-d.

Many beautiful melodies were played throughout the land, but the most beautiful of all were the psalms of David. It is known that he composed all of the music for the Psalms upon the Nevel and the Kinnor. Alone in the fields, the future King David would play his harp while tending his flock. As the music flowed from his soul, heaven and earth were joined and new song

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King David's Harp(Abridged) by John Wheeler No historical personage comes more readily to mind than the biblical King David when the word "harp" is mentioned. Yet the instrument, kinnor, translated "harp" in the King James Version of the Bible, was not a harp at all, but a lyre. The other stringed instrument David played, nevel, translated "psaltery" by the KJV, was likewise not a psaltery, and it may not have been a true harp either.

Lyre From Ancient Palestine

According to Josephus (1st century A.D.) the kinnor had ten strings, the nevel twelve. The kinnor anciently had a rectangular or trapezoidal soundbox and two curved arms of unequal length joined by a crossbar. It was played with the fingers or with a plectrum. Nevel seems to mean "skin-bottle", perhaps because of its shape. Because the strings enter the top of the soundbox, it is more of a harp-lyre than the kinnor, whose strings stretch over a bridge on the side of the box in a lyre-like way. The kinnorot and nevelim (plural terms), with their light framework and high tension strings, produced enough volume to compete with rams' horns, trumpets, and cymbals, and were used in both sacred and secular settings, accompanying choirs and soloists as well as song