An attempt to pull music from the sky by building a harp of a felled aspen tree.
Official reports from the road // Traveling the west with an Aeolian Harp: listening in dry lake beds, great sand dunes, and the world's largest living organism, Pando Aspen Grove.
An Aeolian Harp is one of the rare musical instruments not played by human hands. It is a harp played entirely by the wind.
Named after Aeolus, the Greek god of winds, the Aeolian Harp can be pretty much any shape, and made of any material. Most of them that I’ve seen are wooden boxes, typically with a hole in the front and any number of nylon strings stretched lengthwise across the hole.
When you set this instrument outside on a windy day, the air rushes over the strings and without any human intervention, it vibrates them like an invisible violin bow.
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