Los Angeles musician William Close holds the world record for the longest stringed instrument, a device he invented and has played around the world called the Earth Harp. Close uses resin-coated ...

Close calls the Earth Harp the world's largest string instrument. He attaches the strings to one end to a resonating chamber that contains microphones to boost the sound.

Stan Werbin bought the piano harp two years ago and is still trying to discern its origins. ... At Elderly Instruments, a 76-stringed mystery. Alexander Alusheff. Lansing State Journal.

Close has invented more than 100 instruments, among them a Drum Jacket and a Drum Orb, but the Earth Harp is perhaps his best-known creation. He built the first one with 1,000 feet of string ...

Playing a harp can be an expensive hobby — a high-end instrument can cost as much as a car. A budget model, however, might not hold its tuning very well, which can make for a frustrating playing ...

The harp of biblical times could be played in the hand while walking, but the instrument has come a long way since then. On Feb. 19, String Theory, a Los ...

Andrea Brook is the musician who will be playing the instrument she calls the Sonic Butterfly, a 26-string acoustic, chromatic harp — though she says it doesn’t sound like a traditional harp ...