Harp

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Prince Rhaegar Targaryen playing his silver-stringed high harp - by Felicia Cano. © Fantasy Flight Games

A harp is a multi-string musical instrument. It is very popular in Westeros amongst all of society, and is often used to accompany a song. The “high harp” is also mentioned, it makes soft sweet sounds.[1]

Characters that play the harp

References in the books

A Song of Ice and Fire

  • Prince Rhaegar appears in one of Daenerys Targaryen's visions in the House of the Undying. At the end of the vision he goes to the window seat picks up a harp and runs his fingers lightly over its silver strings. Sweet sadness fills the room as the vision fades, only the music lingers behind.

Quotes

When you heard him play his high harp with the silver strings and sing of twilights and tears and the death of kings, you could not but feel that he was singing of himself and those he loved.[7]

- Ser Barristan Selmy


Many a night she had watched Prince Rhaegar in the hall, playing his silver-stringed harp with those long, elegant fingers of his. Had any man ever been so beautiful? [8]

- Cersei Lannister


At the welcoming feast, the prince had taken up his silver-stringed harp and played for them. A song of love and doom, Jon Connington recalled, and every woman in the hall was weeping when he put down the harp.[9]


Lord Petyr has been kind enough to let me keep my harp.[10]

- Marillion, after being tortured

References and Notes