'the origin of the harp is subject to an Irish myth. A woman walking on the sea shore saw the skeleton of a whale. The wind striking on the sinews made a pleasing sound, and listening to its murmur she fell asleep. In this position her husband found her, and, perceiving that the sound had caused her to sleep, he made a framework of wood, put strings from the whales sinews on it, and so made the first harp’
Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Part 17 James Hastings
'the origin of the harp is subject to an Irish myth. A woman walking on the sea shore saw the skeleton of a whale. The wind striking on the sinews made a pleasing sound, and listening to its murmur she fell asleep. In this position her husband found her, and, perceiving that the sound had caused her to sleep, he made a framework of wood, put strings from the whales sinews on it, and so made the first harp’
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