Choroi Children's Pentatonic Harp - 7 Strings

The Choroi Children's Harp is a pentatonically tuned instrument. Its graceful, sculpted form and ethereal tone make the harp ideal for stimulating the young child's listening and free music making. The harp can be given to the child, at age five or six, as his/her first string instrument. The Choroi lyres and harps were created through a striving for a characteristic, radiant tone deriving its intensity from the properties of the different types of wood used in their construction. Through carefully formed "organs" inside the instruments, these qualities of the wood are brought into connection with the resonating instrument cavity. Variously shaped sound openings mediate between this inner space and the space around the instrument. Through this interaction, a mobile equilibrium arises, giving the tone a living quality. All the instruments are built with the highest quality craftsmanship from naturally colored, carefully aged wood. In our striving for a beautiful finish, Choroi works w