Learn Mary Had a Little Lamb on the Lever Harp
A Celtic lever harp. Pluck a string, or drag across them for a glissando. It's tuned in E♭, and each lever at the top raises its string a semitone. Red strings are C, blue are F.
—last string
Keys 1–7, Q–U, I pluck · Shift + key flips a leverTap or drag across the strings; tap a lever to flip it. Turn your phone sideways for a bigger harp.
Pick a song to practise — the levers set themselves for its key — or just play.
Choose a songPick a song
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Songs
Settings
100 BPM
sounding · raised leverplay this next
Space listen or stop · Esc stop
How to play Mary Had a Little Lamb on the lever harp
Four neighbouring notes and one leap — a classroom favourite to learn first. American nursery rhyme, 1830.
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 100 BPM
- Notes
- 26
- Level
- Easy
- Listen. Press Listen above to hear it at 100 BPM. You can slow it down in Settings.
- Play along. Press Play along and the string to pluck lights up. Play it and the next one lights. A wrong note is named, so you know what to change.
- Play it from the notes. Once it feels familiar, play it from the sheet below without the lights.
Levers: E, A, B raised · no flips needed during the song.
The harp is tuned in E♭. Each lever at the top raises its string a semitone, and the page sets the levers for you when the song loads.
The notes
Written as note names (the lever settings are above). A dot (·) is a rest.
- E4Ma-D4ryC4hadD4aE4lit-E4tleE4lamb,D4lit-D4tleD4lamb,E4lit-G4tleG4lamb,
- E4Ma-D4ryC4hadD4aE4lit-E4tleE4lamb,E4itsD4fleeceD4wasE4whiteD4asC4snow.