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See the Web Sites, Hear the Sounds
By John Kleinbauer

Hi All,  For months I have been toying with the idea of making a
machine that plays strings with air jets instead of hammers.  I was
looking for some way of making sounds without using organ pipes or
reeds.  Well, today I found it has been done already to some degree.

The unit is called a Aeolian Harp.  The unit is placed in a window or
somewhere air flows.  The air flowing through the unit vibrates strings
which cause sound.  This seems to be a really old idea!  For more info
and some other fun, check out the following links.

Plans to make an Aeolian Harp:
  http://www.argonet.co.uk/artlute/aeol.html

A web site that has wave motion demos:
  http://www.exploratorium.edu/xref/exhibits/aeolian_harp.html

A web site that has recordings of old wax cylinder records:
  http://www.tinfoil.com/earlywax.htm#top

John Conrad Kleinbauer


(Message sent Fri 21 Jan 2000, 00:16:42 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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