High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rachel Hair is folk harpist from Scotland. Of mixed Scots-Irish parentage, she was born and brought up in the village of Ullapool. She studied music at the University of Strathclyde where she gained a first class honors degree. She released her debut harp album, "Hubcaps and Potholes", in 2006, and has performed at many festivals including Celtic Connections and the Edinburgh Fringe. A harp is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. It is classified as a chordophone by the Harvard Dictionary of Music and only types of harps are in that class of instruments with plucked strings.