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Adele Girard
Adele Girard
American jazz harpist
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Ruth Berman Harris
Ruth Berman Harris
Harpist, composer
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Lavinia Meijer
Lavinia Meijer
Dutch musician
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Dorothy Ashby
Dorothy Ashby
American jazz harpist
4
Brandee Younger
Brandee Younger
American Harpist
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Cristina Braga
Cristina Braga
Brazilian musician
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Yolanda Kondonassis
Yolanda Kondonassis
American musician
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Irving Mills
Irving Mills
American music publisher, singer, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter
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Derek Bell
Derek Bell
Northern Irish musician
9
Karl Jenkins
Karl Jenkins
Welsh musician and composer
10
Andreas Vollenweider
Andreas Vollenweider
Swiss musician
11
Deborah Henson-Conant
Deborah Henson-Conant
electric harpist, touring musician, composer
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Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell
American harpist and songwriter
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Warren Smith
Warren Smith
American musician
14
Catrin Finch
Catrin Finch
Welsh harpist
15
Astor Piazzolla
Astor Piazzolla
Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger
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Alan Shulman
Alan Shulman
American composer and cellist
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Tommy Vig
Tommy Vig
Hungarian percussionist, arranger, bandleader, and composer
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Wayne Peterson
Wayne Peterson
American composer
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Louis Spohr
Louis Spohr
German composer, violinist and conductor
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Jimmy Blanton
Jimmy Blanton
American musician
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Vincenzo Zitello
Vincenzo Zitello
Italian harpist
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Bobby McFerrin
Bobby McFerrin
American jazz vocalist
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Don Redman
Don Redman
American musician
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Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
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Hubert Laws
Hubert Laws
American flutist and saxophonist
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Frank Wess
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
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Hugh Wolff
Hugh Wolff
American conductor
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Edmar Castañeda
Edmar Castañeda
Colombian musician
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John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin
English guitarist, bandleader, and composer; founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
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Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor
American fiddle player
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Hugo Rignold
Hugo Rignold
British conductor
Intro
American harpist

Casper Reardon (April 15, 1907 – March 9, 1941) was a classical and jazz harpist. He studied classical harp at the Curtis Institute of Music going on to play for the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Later he played jazz as well.

The harp had been used in dance music for occasional flourishes before Reardon, but he is considered a first for using harp as a jazz instrument for solos and performances. By 1936 he was described as the "World's Hottest Harpist." During the following year he played "Cousin Caspar" in the film You're a Sweetheart. The year after that, 1938, he played harp for the Broadway musical I Married an Angel.

As a jazz musician he can be heard on albums by Jack Teagarden and Paul Whiteman. He recorded a handful of records for Liberty Music Shop Records and Schirmer Records.