Sound sculptures take the form of indoor sound installations, outdoor installations such as aeolian harp s, automatons, or be more or less near conventional musical instruments.
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In 1972, Chuck Hancock and Harry Bee recorded a giant Aeolian harp designed and built by 22-year-old Thomas Ward McCain on a hilltop in Chelsea, Vermont.
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The pianist Alfred Brendel has written that Kempff " played on impulse . . . it depended on whether the right breeze, as with an aeolian harp, was blowing.
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It is essentially an aeolian harp, except that it exploits the motion of the string produced by aeroelastic flutter to create a physical oscillation that can be converted to electricity.
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The Aeolian harp already known in the ancient world was first described by Athanasius Kircher ( 1602 1680 ) in his book " Phonurgia nova " ( 1673 ).
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Robert Schumann praised this work in a dissertation on the �tudes; calling it " a poem rather than a study ", he coined for it the alternate name " Aeolian Harp ".
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Chordophones like the aeolian harp ( wind harp ) and the autoharp ( with the piano and harpsichord ) are not harps, but zithers, because their strings are not perpendicular to their soundboard.
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In order to support himself he tried to carry on business as a bookseller but failed, and in his later years was reduced to making Aeolian harps which he sold among his friends.
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The " High Tide Organ " is one of a small group of musical instruments that operate without further human intervention, among which the aeolian harp and the wind chime are the most notable.
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Other machines designed by Kircher include an aeolian harp, automatons such as a statue which spoke and listened via a speaking tube, a perpetual motion machine, and a Katzenklavier ( " cat piano " ).
