Some harps are made with the possibility of playing alterations by puting the finger on the "console" of the harp and reducing the length of the string to play sharp notes. So even on diatonic harps alterations are possible.
Look this bray harp player https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md1Xy1Ed10Y going with her left hand making for sharps notes (at 0.37 and later) V. > Message du 16/01/17 01:51 > De : "Dan Winheld" <[email protected]> > A : "Ralf Mattes" <[email protected]>, "Lute net" <[email protected]> > Copie à : > Objet : [LUTE] Re: Mrs White's nothing > > Interesting- to (some) modern players- both HIP and non-HIP; by the way- > that "well played" has to automatically be synonymous with "fast enough". > - And Ralf, thanks for the info concerning falsas, ficta, and the > hexachords. > > I never heard that Mudarra was mocking Ludovico, rather instead that he > was honoring the great harpist's ability to throw in some chromatic > (well, falsa/ficta fun) notes playing a diatonic harp. Another theory > (or actual fact?) was that harpists would indeed have a string in f# in > one octave and an f natural in another, to cope with the need for such. > > Dan > > -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
