Harpo Marx playing the harp in 1945. Harpo Marx — the "silent" Marx brother — can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.
Harpo Marx was never taught how to play a harp. But every night during the performance of The Cocoanuts, he stops his comic antics to play a tune that captivates the audience but makes music.. Harpo and Bill collaborated on Harpo's two solo harp al bums, Harpo In Hi-Fi (1957) and Harpo at Work (1959), both released by Mercury Records. SUMMER/1983 Harpo's first accomplishment on the harp was to play "oom-chunk-chunks" in accompaniment to the Four Nightingales, the name of one of the Marx Brothers' early singing groups.