From 1968-70, I designed and built a 25-foot-high hand-crafted 80-string
wooden Aeolian Wind Harp on a mountaintop in Vermont,
USA.
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Here
is a view of the Harp at the top of the hill (right)...
The main beams were Oak, and were chosen and logged
in Maine, cut to size and I drove them to Vermont for assembly.
(left) 19, working on the Harp. |
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main sounding box was clear, high-grade redwood, ship-lapped
and screwed together with 1,500 bronze screws - The
top steel crosspiece resembles a "kingfisher" bird,
and was cut to shape by a German company. |
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United Artist Records recorded the wind harp "music" on
site and released it as an album "The Wind Harp."
(See
photo.
For more information about the wind harp, or to commission one, please
contact me.)
CAREER ACTIVITY:
Landscape architecture.
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| Detail of string holders - hand-forged to resemble fiddlehead
ferns. |
- Built several
Japanese gardens and recently
spent 5 years in Mauritius co-designing and supervising the creation
of a 7-acre seaside park including the construction of a massive
wooden Oriental-Chinese style pavilion (see photo below) and
planting 5,000 trees and flora.
Mauritius Pavilion, lit
by night. |
For more information
about Wind Harps or to commission one for your land or park, contact
me by mail, phone or email.
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