Harp - Revision history

JASON10668: Add languages template.

2026-03-25T07:27:22Z

Add languages template.

Umbire the Phantom: not vandalism, it's just not that important imo - but if we're to have it then best to put it like this

2025-11-30T05:56:52Z

not vandalism, it's just not that important imo - but if we're to have it then best to put it like this

Nethacker: fixed Umbire's vandalism

2025-11-30T05:45:45Z

fixed Umbire's vandalism

Umbire the Phantom: not really lol

2025-11-30T04:42:32Z

not really lol

Nethacker: typo

2025-11-22T12:44:02Z

typo

Nethacker: "A randomly generater harp has {{frac|3}} chance to be a magic harp." - it is more important than "encyclopedia entry".

2025-11-22T12:43:33Z

"A randomly generater harp has {{frac|3}} chance to be a magic harp." - it is more important than "encyclopedia entry".

Umbire the Phantom: copyedit

2025-01-16T17:00:54Z

copyedit

Umbire the Phantom at 00:14, 9 November 2021

2021-11-09T00:14:44Z

Netzhack: c/e

2021-11-07T20:05:35Z

c/e

Nethacker at 08:30, 11 September 2017

2017-09-11T08:30:31Z

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	In ''[[NetHack]]'', a '''harp''' is the appearance of one of two [[musical instrument]]s:		In ''[[NetHack]]'', a '''harp''' is the appearance of one of two [[musical instrument]]s:

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 * [[Magic harp]]
-Both cost 50 [[zm]] and weigh 30 [[aum]]. A wooden harp will either play "a lilting melody" or else "twangs", while a magic harp with charges produces "very attractive music". A randomly generated harp has {{frac|3}} chance to be a magic harp.
+Both cost 50 [[zm]] and weigh 30 [[aum]]. A wooden harp will either play "a lilting melody" or else "twangs", while a magic harp with charges produces "very attractive music". Roughly {{frac|2|3}} of harps will be wooden harps, and {{frac|3}} will be magic harps.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==

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 * [[Magic harp]]
-Both cost 50 [[zm]] and weigh 30 [[aum]]. A wooden harp will either play "a lilting melody" or else "twangs", while a magic harp with charges produces "very attractive music".
+Both cost 50 [[zm]] and weigh 30 [[aum]]. A wooden harp will either play "a lilting melody" or else "twangs", while a magic harp with charges produces "very attractive music". A randomly generated harp has {{frac|3}} chance to be a magic harp.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==

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 * [[Magic harp]]
-Both cost 50 [[zm]] and weigh 30 [[aum]]. A wooden harp will either play "a lilting melody" or else "twangs", while a magic harp with charges produces "very attractive music". A randomly generated harp has {{frac|3}} chance to be a magic harp.
+Both cost 50 [[zm]] and weigh 30 [[aum]]. A wooden harp will either play "a lilting melody" or else "twangs", while a magic harp with charges produces "very attractive music".
 ==Encyclopedia entry==

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 * [[Magic harp]]
-Both cost 50 [[zm]] and weigh 30 [[aum]]. A wooden harp will either play "a lilting melody" or else "twangs", while a magic harp with charges produces "very attractive music". A randomly generater harp has {{frac|3}} chance to be a magic harp.
+Both cost 50 [[zm]] and weigh 30 [[aum]]. A wooden harp will either play "a lilting melody" or else "twangs", while a magic harp with charges produces "very attractive music". A randomly generated harp has {{frac|3}} chance to be a magic harp.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==

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-In ''[[NetHack]]'', a '''harp''' is one of two [[musical instrument]]s:
+In ''[[NetHack]]'', a '''harp''' is the appearance of one of two [[musical instrument]]s:
-* [[Wooden harp]] (2/3 probability)
+* [[Wooden harp]]
-* [[Magic harp]]  (1/3 probability)
+* [[Magic harp]]
-Both cost 50 zm and weigh 30 [[aum]]. A wooden harp will either play "a lilting melody" (which pacifies [[nymph]]s), or else "twangs". If a harp produces "very attractive music", it is a magic harp instead.
+Both cost 50 [[zm]] and weigh 30 [[aum]]. A wooden harp will either play "a lilting melody" or else "twangs", while a magic harp with charges produces "very attractive music".
 ==Encyclopedia entry==
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 |[ Jack and the Beanstalk, from English Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs ]
 }}
+{{nethack-367}}
 {{disambig}}

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-A '''harp''' might be one of two [[musical instrument]]s:
+A '''harp''' is one of two [[musical instrument]]s:
-* [[Wooden harp]] (2/3 relative probability)
+* [[Wooden harp]] (2/3 probability)
-* [[Magic harp]]  (1/3 relative probability)
+* [[Magic harp]]  (1/3 probability)
 Both cost 50 zm (and weigh 30), so [[price identification]] does not help.
-Wooden will either play "a lilting melody" (which pacifies nymphs) or else it "twangs." If a harp produces "very attractive music" it is a magic harp instead.
+A wooden harp will either play "a lilting melody" (which pacifies nymphs) or else it "twangs." If a harp produces "very attractive music" it is a magic harp instead.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==
 {{encyclopedia|
-A triangular stringed instrument, often Magic.  Even when not
+A triangular stringed instrument, often Magic.  Even when not Magic, a Harp is surprisingly portable and tough and can be carried everywhere on the back of the Bard or Harper in all weathers.  A Harp seldom goes out of tune and never warps. Its strings break only in very rare instances, usually because the Harper is sulking or crossed in love.  This is just as well as no one seems to make or sell spare strings.
 {{right-align|[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]}}
 After breakfast was over, the ogre called out: "Wife, wife,
-bring me my golden harp."  So she brought it and put it on
+After breakfast was over, the ogre called out: "Wife, wife, bring me my golden harp."  So she brought it and put it on the table before him.  Then he said: "Sing!" and the golden harp sang most beautifully.  And it went on singing till the ogre fell asleep, and commenced to snore like thunder.
-the table before him.  Then he said: "Sing!" and the golden
+Then Jack lifted up the copper-lid very quietly and got down like a mouse and crept on hands and knees till he came to the table, when up he crawled, caught hold of the golden harp and dashed with it towards the door.  But the harp called out quite loud: "Master!  Master!" and the ogre woke up just in time to see Jack running off with his harp.
-harp sang most beautifully.  And it went on singing till the
+|[ Jack and the Beanstalk, from English Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs ]
 }}
 {{disambig}}

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	Both cost 50 zm (and weigh 30), so [[price identification]] does not help.		Both cost 50 zm (and weigh 30), so [[price identification]] does not help.
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		+	Wooden will either play "a lilting melody" (which pacifies nymphs) or else it "twangs." If a harp produces "very attractive music" it is a magic harp instead.

	==Encyclopedia entry==		==Encyclopedia entry==