Pedal harps can cost $70,000 — far more than lever harps, which cost $2,000 to $9,000. At Camac in France, every harp is carved and assembled by hand.

She takes the heaviest distortion pedal that’s out there on the market and then puts it on her harp. And it sounds pretty badass, we must say. Although, rather weird too, but in an awesome way?

A hundred years ago, a famous French harp company was trying to sell a new-fangled instrument: the pedal harp. It was pitched as a rival to the other new-fangled harp, the chromatic harp. The ...