The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square has organised an exhibition of ancient Egyptian musical instruments to celebrate this year’s World Music Day, reports Nevine El-Aref ...

Crammed into the tiny upstairs of the small Northwest Iowa County Museum in 1980 was a collection of rare and historic musical instruments.

The exhibit takes us from a replica of an ancient Egyptian harp to Celtic harps with metal strings to a 1776 French harp from the court of Marie Antoinette to a modern electric harp designed for ...

The semsemia, similar to a harp and made of beechwood with steel strings, is believed to have ancient Egyptian roots. It appears on ornate engravings on tombs.

The simsimiyya - or traditional Pharaonic lyre -- is the center piece of Port Said's Sohba band. The instrument has deep roots in Egypt's history, from ancient Phaoronic times to more modern ...

Egyptian craftsman Mohamed Ghaly adds finishing touches to a semsemia harp that he made at a cultural museum in Port Said, Egypt, on May 29. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP PORT SAID, Egypt - When Mohamed ...

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