The Ancient Egyptian Harp

An improvisation on a 3500 year old ancient Egyptian scale, performed on an archaic skin-membrane harp - almost identical to the arched harps played in ancient Egypt, from over 4500 years ago in the Old Kingdom onwards... This composition is in the minor pentatonic scale - one of the ancient Egyptian scales deciphered by the late Prof Hans Hickmann. Although the ancient Egyptians did not have any written musical notation, they did have a form of musical notation based on hand gestures (chironomy) - where
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