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Aeolian Window Harp These sell fast. Please e-mail me for current inventory. Click here for an MP3 sound clip! |
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Model AH #7 Based on traditional designs.
Collection of Victoria Ainsley, Scotts Valley, California |
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Model AH #6 NEW! Original design.
Collection of John Wells, Sedona, AZ |
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Model AH #1 Based on traditional designs.
Collection of Rin Eric, Santa Cruz, California |
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Model AH #2 Based on traditional designs.
Collection of Kim Scheiblauer, Santa Cruz, California |
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Model AH #3 Based on traditional designs.
Collection of Julie Forbes, Santa Cruz, California |
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Model AH #4 Based on traditional designs.
Collection of Kathryn Corby, Santa Cruz, California |
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Named after Aeolus, the Greek god of the winds. [The Aeolian harp] is a stringed musical instrument played by the wind. The strings, usually numbering from 8 to 12, are traditionally gut. New Aeolian harps are strung with nylon, sometimes interspersed with one or two steel strings. All strings are tuned to the same [note, but each string is a different thickness, therefore producing different harmonics, such as] octaves, 12th, second octaves, and succeedingly higher harmonics [of each] string's fundamental note. The principle of the natural vibration of strings has long been recognized. According to legend, King David hung his kinnor (a kind of lyre) above his bed at night to catch the wind. In the 10th century, Dunstan of Canterbury produced sounds from a harp by allowing the wind to blow through its strings. The first known [modern-style] Aeolian harp was constructed by Athanasius Kircher and was described in his Musurgia Universalis (1650). The Aeolian harp was popular in Germany and England during the Romantic movement of the late 18th and 19th centuries. - Portions from Encyclopedia Britannica |
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