harp

collective noun

is nothing but an oversized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions.

What is a harp but an oversized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions'

is an instrument whose most admirable characteristic is that its strings break.

What some people enjoy most about a harp is that its strings break.

is an instrument that a harpist spends ninety percent of their life tuning and ten per cent playing out of tune.

Harpists spend ninety per cent of their lives tuning their harps and ten per cent playing out of tune.