The harp is the work of Jean Henri Naderman, famed Parisian craftsman, instrument builder in the service of Marie Antoinette. It is of the type of frame harp with a single row of pedals.
It was once owned by Dr Josip Široki in Virje; he took a doctorate in musicology in Vienna, and had his study of Croatian folk music printed in Paris, where he could well have come into the possession of the harp.