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	Aeolian Harp
		To ensure a proper passage for the wind, another pine board is placed over the strings, resting on pegs at the ends of the sound-board, or on a continuation of the ends raised from 1 to 3 in.
		Kaufmann of Dresden and Heinrich Christoph Koch, who improved the aeolian harp, introduced this contrivance, which was called by them Windfang and Windflugel; the upper board was prolonged beyond the sound-box in the shape of a funnel, in order to direct the current of air on to the strings.
		The aeolian harp is placed across a window so that the wind blows obliquely across the strings, causing them to vibrate in aliquot parts, i.e.
	www.danielmcadam.com /aeolian-harp.html (432 words)

	Aeolian Harp - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The aeolian harp consists of a sound-box about 3 ft. long, 5 in.
		Kaufmann of Dresden and Heinrich Christoph Koch, who improved the aeolian harp, introduced this contrivance, which was called by them Windfang and Windfiiigel; the upper board was prolonged beyond the sound-box in the shape of a funnel, in order to direct the current of air on to the strings.
		The aeolian harp is placed across a window so that the wind blows obliquely across the strings, causing them to vibrate in aliquot parts, i.e.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Aeolian_Harp (426 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Aeolian harp
		An aeolian harp (or æolian harp or wind harp) is a musical instrument that is "played" by the wind.
		Aeolian harps were very popular as household instruments during the Romantic Era, but are still being hand-crafted today.
		Henry Cowell's Aeolian Harp (1923) was one of the first piano pieces ever to feature extended techniques on the piano which included plucking and sweeping the pianist's hands directly across the strings of the piano.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Aeolian-harp (1163 words)

	AEOLIAN HARP (Fr. harp... - Online Information article about AEOLIAN HARP (Fr. harp...
		To ensure a proper passage for the wind, another pine board is placed over the strings, resting on pegs at the ends of the sound-board, or on a continuation of the ends raised from r to 3 in.
		Koch, who improved the aeolian harp, introduced this contrivance, which was called by them Windfang and Windfliigel; the upper board was prolonged beyond the sound-box in the shape of a See also:
		Kircher, Musurgia Universalis, where the aeolian harp is first described (1602-1608), p.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ADA_AIZ/AEOLIAN_HARP_Fr_harpe_eolienne_.html (635 words)

	Exhibit Cross Reference - Aeolian Harp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Doug Hollis (1976) - This piece is a large-scale wind harp mounted on the roof of the Exploratorium.
		The sounds produced by the wind blowing across the choir of strings are transmitted mechano-acoustically to speakers near the entrance of the building.
		The harp is the culmination of a series of investigations into the nature of resonating strings and the ways in which this resonance can be transmitted and amplified though non-electronic means.
	www.exploratorium.edu /xref/exhibits/aeolian_harp.html (72 words)

	Aeolian harp
		Some are now made in the form of monumental metal sculptures located on the roof of a building or a windy hilltop.
		The traditional aeolian harp is essentially a wooden box including a sound board[?], with strings stretched lengthwise across two bridges.
		Aeolian harps are featured in at least two Romantic-era poems, The Aeolian Harp and Dejection, an Ode, both by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ae/Aeolian_harp.html (190 words)

	aeolian harp - definition of aeolian harp by the Online Dictionary from Datasegment.com
		Harp shell (Zool.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas.
		Of or pertaining to [AE]olia or [AE]olis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; [ae]olic; as, the [AE]olian dialect.
		[AE]olian harp, [AE]olian lyre, a musical instrument consisting of a box, on or in which are stretched strings, on which the wind acts to produce the notes; -- usually placed at an open window.
	onlinedictionary.datasegment.com /word/aeolian+harp (291 words)

	Aeolian Harp - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Aeolian Harp, musical instrument in which several gut strings of different thicknesses and equal length are stretched over a narrow, oblong box....
		Harp, musical instrument in which strings, sounded by plucking, run between a neck and a sound box (also called the body or resonator).
		Three populations of harp seals can be found in the open seas of the Arctic Atlantic, most easily...
	encarta.msn.com /Aeolian_Harp.html (129 words)

	Aeolian Ballet Theatre/LA: Artistic Vision
		Aeolian Ballet Theatre is a Los Angeles-based professional chamber ballet company dedicated to enriching the human experience through live dance performance.
		Aeolian Ballet Theatre's commitment to the creation of new works and the revival of historical pieces has been evident in its seasonal programming.
		The aeolian harp serves as a symbol of creativity for the company.
	www.aeolianballet.org /vision.html (506 words)

	Nancy's Musical Meanderings - Aeolian Harp
		The Aeolian harp was said to have been the instrument of Aeolus, the Greek god of wind.
		The harp should be almost as long as the width of the window, and the window should be closed almost to the top of strings.
		A second type of Aeolian harp is one that is meant to remain outside.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/7353/Aeolian.html (511 words)

	Aeolian Harp - Professor Henry Gurr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Barfield discusses the Aeolian Harp and Camera Obscura as metaphors of human mental process as is contained in the literary traditions of the romantic poets.
		Notice that his Aeolian Harp strings are not a whole lot longer or different diameter than ordinary guitar strings.
		The Aeolian Harp Designer should work to preserve this feeling for the Aeolian Harp and thus help the listener to properly be "in-tune" with the larger natural reality around the harp.
	www.usca.edu /math/~mathdept/hsg/aeolian.html (13299 words)

	Wind Harp Physics
		On the giant wind harps, the sounds are lower and sound more mysterious than fairy-like because the strings are so long, but the tones are still harmonics of the fundamental pitch of the string.
		On the giant wind harps, the sounds are lower and sound more mysterious instead of fairy-like because the strings are so long, but the tones are still harmonics of the fundamental pitch of the string.
		An Aeolian harp are usually constructed as a rectangular sound box (the size of the box is determined by the width of the window in which it will be placed) with several strings of equal length, tuned to the same note.
	www.konzak.com /windharp/physics.html (582 words)

	Aeolian harp - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Aeolian harps were very popular as household instruments during the Romantic Era, but are still being hand-crafted today.
		The traditional aeolian harp is essentially a wooden box including a sound board, with strings stretched lengthwise across two bridges.
		Aeolian harps are featured in at least two Romantic-era poems, The Aeolian Harp and Dejection, an Ode, both by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=232235 (389 words)

	Harmonic Wind Harps About....
		Aeolian Harps, named after the Greek god of Wind 'Aeolus', first appeared in Greecian culture circa 6 BC, when Orpheus, the 'original' poet, held poetry readings accompanied by the music of Wind Harps.
		Since wind harps are played solely by the wind ('spirit'), their music is wholly without ego; a self-less expression of the flowing interactivity of all things.
		To live and work in the ambiance of a wind harp playing in a window of one's home or office, or to sit near a Grand Aeolian harp on a deck or patio, is a highly inspiring occasion.
	www.harmonicwindharps.com /about.htm (689 words)

	Civilization.ca - The making of musical instruments in Canada - Symbolism - Sounds
		he harp of Aeolus, which is said to make the wind sing, has roots in a number of legends: the invention of the lyre is attributed to the god Hermes, who let the wind blow over dried sinews in a tortoiseshell; and David's harp was purportedly made to sing by the breath of God.
		Even today, the Aeolian harp retains a slightly magical aura, as only hypothetical explanations have been found to account for the sounds produced by the wind's movement through its strings.
		The Aeolian harp was thus the source of several poems.
	www.civilization.ca /arts/opus/opus523e.html (301 words)

	Encyclopedia Barfieldiana: Aeolian Harp
		Barfield's chief interest in the Aeolian harp is that, as an instrument played on by nature itself rather than by human intervention, it stands as a ready-made symbol for inspiration, as is apparent in the following passages (quoted from Shelley and Coleridge respectively) cited by him:
		Man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven, like the alternations of an ever-changing wind over an aeolian lyre, which move it by their motion to ever-changing melody.
		The harp/camera antinomy lies at the heart of the modern misunderstanding of the "primitive" mind, the "chronological snobbery" that lead to the development of the theory of projection.
	davidlavery.net /Barfield/encyclopedia_barfieldiana/Lexicon/Aeolian.html (598 words)

	The Aeolian Harp or Windharp; die "klassische" Aeolsharfe oder Windharfe, La Harpe Éolienne "Classique"
		Aeolian harps were installed in scientific cabinets where they were made sounding by simply making a through draught when the window was opened, a big surprise to visitors...
		It was in a summernight, that he had installed his instrument (aeolian harp) in his room between two open doors, and a slight breeze, blowing from the monastery's garden played a delightful melody.
		The tones of an aeolian harp are mostly the harmonics of a string.
	members.aol.com /woinem1/index/eolsharf.htm (11682 words)

	aeolian-harp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		As air passes through the harp its strings vibrate in sympathy with corresponding motion in the moving column of air.
		The result is an ethereal Aeolian resonance, a tonal memory of the wind’s chaotic motion that, like our own memory, is a colored artifact of a presence that has since departed.
		The Aeolian Harp was composed in Common Music, a software environment for computer-based composition developed by the author.
	pinhead.music.uiuc.edu /~hkt/music/aeolian-harp/aeolian-harp.html (464 words)

	The Aeolian Harp, Alaska Science Forum
		an aeolian harp is a box equipped with a number of strings of equal length, tuned in unison and sounded by wind.
		If the wind were to play the harp, the frequency of vortex shedding must match the frequency of the note produced by the harp string.
		Because it is necessary to have this coincidence, the aeolian harp effect is only occasionally observed.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF10/1070.html (572 words)

	C.A. Cavanaugh: The Aeolian Harp of Ralph Waldo Emerson
		C.A. Cavanaugh: The Aeolian Harp of Ralph Waldo Emerson
		An Aeolian harp from the period 1860-1879 may be described as follows: "a rectangular box with strings crossing a bridge at either end, and a lid hooking over the strings and admitting the air" (Grigson 24).
		Merlin's disharmony with nature in "The Harp" is described as a confinement that restricts his freedom of expression, but the Aeolian harp, personified as man in a sinless state, continues to transmit the message of the Over-Soul with greater harmony and beauty than the fallen poet Merlin can do.
	rmmla.wsu.edu /ereview/56.1/articles/cavanaugh.asp (3735 words)

	Wind Harp Links
		Wind Harps, also called Aeolian Harps, are among the oldest of mechanical instruments.
		This harp was designed and built with the help of my friend and welder Bob Griesing and several larger parts were fabricated at Nichols Welding in Silver City.
		This harp, which would be 13 feet high, would be fabricated in aluminum, so Ron drew up the plans, with some input from wind harp engineer Ed Hagemann.
	www.ridejoeride.org /wind_harp_links.htm (1427 words)

	THE VENTURE GRANT AEOLIAN HARP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		[6] The “Harp and Camera” theme as well as the plans to develop an Aeolian harp at USCA were featured in the Aiken Standard newspaper [7] An Aeolian Harp Writing contest was sponsored at USCA in Fall Semester 1994.
		Barfield discusses the Aeolian Harp and the Camera Obscura as metaphors of the human mind (and imagination) as contained in the literary traditions of the poets of the romantic era especially, Coleridge, Shelley, and Wordsworth.
		Barfield shows how the Aeolian Harp may be a metaphor (indeed symbol) of earlier people’s response to God and nature, whereas the Camera Obscura and its images may be a metaphor (indeed symbol) of modern man’s response to his own self created world: A world having for modern man the apparent absence of God.
	www.usca.edu /math/~mathdept/hsg/VentureGrantAeolianHarpReport.html (3572 words)

	Aeolian Wind Harp, a harmonic harp played by the wind, Harmonic wind harp
		Aeolian Harps are rare, beautiful instruments designed to be played by the wind; free of the touch of human hands.
		Harmonic wind harps transpose the spirit of the wind into spontaneous, multi-layered music in time to nature's rhythms.
		Listen to a sample of the Grand Harp Greg Joly has been building Aeolian Harps of various sizes for over 20 years.
	www.oddmusic.com /gallery/om01000.html (179 words)

	Environmental Works
		The wind harp is one of the oldest musical instruments discovered by man. According to legend, King David hung his harp in an open window and heard it played by the wind.
		When an aeolian harp string is activated by the wind, the fundamental is never sounded, only the overtone series.
		Eight copper and teakwood harps are tensioned with stainless steel strings.
	www.sonicarchitecture.com /catalogue/Aeolian.html (500 words)

	Aeolian (Wind) Harp Reproductions
		The harps are made with 16 strings of monofilament nylon, closely spaced, which allow the harp to sing in a very light breeze.
		This way the harp is easily positioned in the open window, and the 1/2 inch gap on either end of the harp has very little effect on the harps ability to sing for you.
		When the window is holding the harp tightly in place, some of the sounds produced transfer into the wall, increasing the volume of the harp.
	www.harpmaker.net /windharp.htm (1461 words)

	Aeolian Harps Harp Aeolian Wind Harp Aeolian Garden Harps Aeolian Lawn Ornament
		Our designs make for unique garden art or lawn art all on their own, and once you add in the haunting melodies these delightful garden decorations make, you’ll find they are the perfect outdoor sculpture or garden sculpture for you.
		An Aeolian harp is a wind harp; one of a unique variety of wind instruments played by nature and not by the hand of man, not unlike wind chimes or a wind sculpture.
		These unique wind harps produce a sound much subtler than that of a wind chime, often referred to as enchanting, ethereal, and almost haunting.
	www.mohicanwindharps.com (221 words)

	The Weather Notebook: Aeolian Harp
		The Aeolian Harp was conceived around 1650 in Germany, not to played not by hand, but by the wind.
		There is a poetic, if macabre, legend that the God Hermes invented the first stringed instrument, the lyre, after hearing the wind blow through the carcass of a dead animal, pulling musical tones from its dried sinews -- the body itself a stringed instrument, the wind the musician.
		Aeolian Harp at the International Center for Wild Animals (the Wilds), a 9000 acre wildlife refuge in Central Ohio.
	www.weathernotebook.com /transcripts/2000/05/31.html (271 words)

	Aeolian Harp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Aeolian installed this style of harp in almost all of its organs.
		It is sometimes used as a solo instrument, but often is used as an accompaniment with the pipes.
		The harp has 49 notes, but is wired to play from all 61 keys.
	members.socket.net /~rtaylor/aeolian_harp.html (213 words)

	reg:exp: Building an Aeolian Harp Pt. 1
		As a last-minute Burning Man project, I decided to build an Aeolian Harp - a string instrument played by the wind.
		I'm following the short design description from "Amy Queen of Toyes" found here on Dennis Havlena's site, which has a plans for a many DIY instruments.
		Uli Wahl in Germany also has a ton of information on aeolian and kite instruments online.
	regexp.bjoern.org /archives/000164.html (244 words)

	Aeolian Harps, history of aeolian harps, contemporary aeolian harps
		Aeolian Harps, history of aeolian harps, contemporary aeolian harps
		Our modern wind harps, with their soothing, ethereal tones and contemporary designs, are in fact based on principles that date back to antiquity.
		The Aeolian harp, usually a box-like musical instrument strung with several harmonically-tuned strings, dates back to ancient Greece, and was said to have been the instrument of Aeolus, the Greek god of wind.
	www.soundscapesinternational.com /aeolianharps.php (135 words)

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