Thekrogharpe was a type of harp native toNorway, which featured steel strings and a horizontal soundboard.[1] In the modern era German harpistNancy Thym has reconstructed and played a krogharpe based on an instrument built in 1776 inØsterdalen.
A 1916 article inThe Musical Times described the instrument:
The Krogharp is an antique and uncouth instrument with metal strings and a horizontal sound-board. It is still in use among the peasantry, and with reason; for it is capable of producing great emotional effects, and is peculiarly fitted to be the interpreter of that weird Norwegian music, through which such a deep strain of melancholy runs.
A 1902 German-language encyclopedia described it as "played until recently."[2]