An exciting new exhibition called Tune In! that will be open for a year at Jerusalem’s Bloomfield Science Museum promises to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Time Harp Instrument is Motion-Sensing, String-Playing Howler ... The robo-musical instrument grinds plastic discs against strings to make them resonate, activated by motion sensors.

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 ...