#harps

♪ 20th year anniversary for Neil banging out the tunes! ♫ ☽ - ✰ - ☾ ☽ - ✰ - ☾ ☽ - ✰ - ☾

Thorin with a golden harp.

Happy Halloween month, time to share one of my fave things ever, which is Toccata and Fugue on THE HARP.

(Trust me, you will recognize it from the first notes.)

She arranged the piece herself?! (She also has a ton of covers of video game music on her channel)

ANYWAY. I just need you to know how fucking impressive this is. It’s. Absolutely batshit levels of skill. Both arranging the piece and playing it.

“What’s that thing she’s doing with her feet?” This kind of harp is called a pedal harp. Each pedal controls all the strings for a particular note—for instance, one pedal controls all the F strings. Each pedal has three positions—sharp, natural, and flat. This means that yes, it’s a PITA to play accidentals, and it’s physically impossible to play an F sharp and an F natural at the same time.

Playable antique harps

(darn, tumblr only allows such tiny gif sizes, these are better on Patreon 😂)

I know you've been waiting on this one!!!

I have made three previously non-playable harps, playable - using @janesimsten's Playable Harp mod.

Two of these are by AnniQ: she had these set as radios; and I have added a stool, and converted them to be able to be played:

The third is by TV-Sims, and this was simply a decoration. This one had a stool attached, which I really liked, so I've used this for the other two harps as well:

JaneSimsten posted a little tutorial on how to make pianos into harpsichords, using her Playable Harpsichord mod; so, I followed the same principle to make these playable, with a little catch: the fingers go in a specific place in order to look like the sim is plucking the strings. SO, I worked real hard to align everything properly, and giving things the right proportions, so it looks as realistic as possible.

There is a tiny bit of body/clothes clipping throughout the playing, due to the size of the harps, but it is barely noticeable, and I don't think it takes away the beauty of the playing. A voluminous dress is a whole different kettle of fish, since they clip through pretty much everything anyway 😂

To make it work: you need to download JaneSimsten's Playable Harp mod here!

Build your harp playing skill, and at level 8 you can write songs! at level 9 you can licence songs! then you can become the most celebrated harpist in all the land!!

If you like, you can download the original harps here: Harpa by AnniQ, The Harp by AnniQ, Victorian Harp by TV-Sims; however, downloading these is NOT REQUIRED for these to work.

Go to my Patreon to download my harps!!

Happy Simming! 🤲🏻

Update 08/03/2026:  Remade uv_1 on each harp and no longer show transparent when MXAO is enabled within ReShade. Reduced polycounts further. Bonus harp included~