Henry David Thoreau wrote a poem called " Rumors from an Aeolian Harp ", which he included in the " Monday " chapter of his first book, " A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ".
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Henry Cowell's " Aeolian Harp " ( 1923 ) was one of the first piano pieces to feature extended techniques on the piano that included plucking and sweeping the pianist's hands directly across the strings of the piano.
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United released their double LP titled " The Wind Harp : Song from the Hill " . ( An excerpt of this recording appears in the movie " Alan Lamb has created and recorded several very large-scale Aeolian harps.
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He is best known for installations of large scale Aeolian harps, such as his album " Primal Image ", which consists of contact microphone recordings of kilometre long spans of telegraph wire on in rural Perth purchased for that purpose.
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Todd was also credited with inventing and patenting " a cabinet with a folding table, a cannon to be fired at noon by sun power, a unique sundial, and an aeolian harp device to be fastened in a tree where it would be played by the wind ."
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Other members of the congregation join in and, although there is no particular effort to match the pitch or the words, the overall effect is harmonious . " It is as if the strings of a huge Aeolian harp have been set in motion by the wind of the Holy Spirit.
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Where " Messiah " had exploited his virtuosity in rapid passage work, this new role gave him, at the beginning of the aria " The raptur'd soul ", a fine opportunity to display his " artful manner of diminishing his voice like the dying notes of an Aeolian harp ", as Burney described it.
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The supporting cobblestone formations bear inscriptions of various legends about the stars their armatures focus upon . " The south armature features a shadow rod that casts solstice shadows on ground markers, the west armature is fitted with a wind sculpture, and the northeast armature features an aeolian harp . " ( Hilderman Thomas Frank Cramm-Oodena Celebration Circle)
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Or what he learned from Rosina Lhevinne, which is another question put to him : " One of the things I distinctly remember was being a little early for a lesson and she was playing, and I opened the double doors to the studio and heard her play Chopin's ` Aeolian Harp'Etude _ oh my, as if from heaven !"
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Wallace Stevens borrowed " The Man With the Blue Guitar " from Pablo Picasso as an image for the transfiguring power of the imagination : " Things as they are / / Are changed upon the blue guitar . " ( Samuel Taylor Coleridge used the Aeolian Harp, which tranforms wind into melody, as a ( italics ) musical ( italics ) equivalent for the imagination .)
