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oMAE AEOLIAN HARPSI
ow Any Ingenious Boy May
Bring the Winds to His
Service.
mple Means of Constructing a
Harp to Liven Up the
House.
w Materials Necessary and They Are
Inexpensive-Aeollan Harps' in
Castles and Cathedrals.
[Written for Tie IIELENAINDEIENDENT.1
HERE is not a boy
anywhere if he bas
patience and a little
skill, who cannot make
his own neolian harps.
Let him out this article
out, follow carefully
x the instructions given,
and he will not fail.
Before proceeding to
scription I may say that this harp is a
otrivance named after Aeolus who was
lieved by the ancients to p eside over
e winds and whose abode was sup
Eed to be in the islands lying
ttween Italy and Sicily. In those
den days there was a general belief
at the god of the winds and his
inistrants were the authors of many
usioal sounds, so when Athanasius
ircher in the seventeenth century in
pted the musical box he named it in det
ence to the ancient belief, the aeolian
arp, or the harp of Aeolus, becauseitwas
ayed by the wind.
'All needed to make an aeolian harp are
few dry boards of some light seasoned
ood, such as white pine or white cedar,
nd it should not be more than an
ghth of an inch thick. As the harp
onld be placed in the window so that the
mnd, or even the draughts, passing into the
ouse or out of it may move the strings, the
ox should be made the width of the sill,
nd the window ought to rest upon it when
own.
'The board should be of even grain, per
ctly sound and seasoned and without
note. Care should be taken to plane it
venly, making all the surfaces is smooth
N9
gn KIA ARP,
a possible, for the smoother, the surface is
ads the better will be.the sound, as is the
ass with violins, A square and a fine
oeth saw are also necessary.
When the boards are planed, out the
ogee ones of a length equal to the width
of the window, then proceed to make the
box. It ought to be about five inches thick,
and five or six inches deep; the sides and
ends should fit as closely as possible to
gether, for elovenly~work in this respect
will retard the sound. It is best to use
wooden pegs to put the box together,
though I have seen many good instruments
which have been fastened with nails.
The hole should be carefully bored with
a small brad-awl, for if any of the boards
are split the sounding capacity of the box
will be injured. Most of the boxes, how
ever, are fastened together with glue, aqd
also with uegs, and I am pretty sure that
these give a better sound than those hav
ing nails or pegs only; but putting them
together requires great care. All the parts
should be fastened carefully and firmly
together till the glue is dry, and a good
plan would be to first connect the aides,
ends and the bottom, and when they are
firm to put on the top or chief sounding
board. The aeolian harp is construoted on
the same principle as the violin, and this is
why the top of the box is called the sound
ing board.
The box completed, made solid and close
in the joints, the next step is to put on
bridges on which the strings must rest.
These should consist of beech, oak, box
wood, or some other description of hard
wood, about half an inch high and a
quarter of an inch thick, the strips long
enough to extend across the box, a short
distance from the ends. These two strips
serve the same purpose as the bridge of a
DIAGRAM AT END.
violin, the strings being drawn over teem
from end to end of the box. In the center
of the top or sounding board draw with a
pair of compasses a circle, say, an inch and
a half in diameter, and perforate this cirole
with a nnmber of small and carefully made
holes a short distance apart. The holes
may all be made within the circle.
It is necessary also to put on two other
strips one across each end of the box, on
the outside, and on level with the top of
sounding board, and into one of these are
placed as many small brass pins as there
are to be strings in the instrument.
In the other strip bore a corresponding
number of holes, which should be large,
and make hard-wood pegs to fit into these.
The pegs should be arranged like those in a
guitar or violin and made to fit tight so
that when the peg is turned to tone the
instrument it will remain firm.
It must be borne in mind, however, that
the strings should not be made too tight,
for if they are they will not sound, The
best way to determine this is to first make
the box, set it in a breezy window and note
the amount of tension that gives the best
sound.
The finest catgut strings are generally
used, and they can be obtained at the store
of nearly any music dealer, Four is the
smallest number used, but six, eight, or
even more may .be stretched along the box
and should deesooarranued as. tq form a
harmony ofaeunds. the Th inejp dealer can
explain thisnbat w isa theeitrinngs are put
in you will have to trust ygas) own ear to
tune the harp., W'he stg1mgsAhould by
pitched all in the eamne key, thpipgh high,
low and middle notes may be nued,
The box is now nearly finished, but one
thing more remains tp be done, and this is
to put a thin cover made of sound dry
resonant board about three inches above
the top of the box so that the wind may
be able to course over the strings. Four
stout wooden pegs shonld be glued onto the
corners of the box, and to these the board
must be fastened firmly. tome fasten on
the upper or covering board with glue, but
others attach it with pegs, which are made'
tigh on op b driinglit small wedgiss.
WThe aeolln har is now cemple ed and
ready to piace in the window. When the
frame closes down it should fit evenly along
the surface of the cover board, so that the
air passing in and out may blow through
over the strings and put them in motion.
The box should be placed nowhere except
where there is a draught.
If catgut strings cannot be obtained, an
aeolian harp may be made by following the
instructions given and using silk threads.
Heavy threads are sometimes naed for the
bass strings or low keys, and fine thread for
the high notes. I once, after great care,
succeeded in finishing an instrument for
which I could not obtain catgut, and it
gave forth a continuous strain of sweet
musical sounds.
Sometimes silk threads as well as catgut
are stretched from sounding boards run
ning perpendicularly up anddown the sides
of a window, but the notes souno all at
once and the effect is not nearly so harmo
nious as when one string after another is
set vibrating, running the gamut in regu
lar order. Large instruments resembling
violins are sometimes placed in a case and
put by the window, but it takes too strong a
current'of wind to move the strings. The
simple'sounding box made as I have de
scribed it is the best of all.
The harps should not be left on the win
dow during rain or snow storms for the
strings shrink with the wet and the wood
becomes soggy. A good plan is to take it
in every night, loosen the strings and tune
it again by turning the pegs before putting
it in the window. I have seen as many as a
half dozen harps in one house, some be
ing placed in bedroom windows, one in the
dining-room, and one in the drawing-room.
the latter being vanished and more orna
mental than the others.
Sometimes when the air is not moving
outside, the harp strings are set vibrating
by the draught passing out or coming in
the window. Should the air of the room
be much heated it moves the strings in reg
ular order as it rushes out, and the cooler
air from outside flowing in makes them
vibrate in the opposite way. The result is
a swelling and falling of low, soft musical
sounds, which die away as gently as a
breath. Many persons leave their harps
out all night for they like to bear through
the darkness the sobbing and sighing music
of the instrument. Placed at some dis
tance from the room where one sleeps, the
music seems to be in the air and every
wherq through the house.
When the wind blows hard the strings
are shaken with great force and swiftness,
and the waiting of the harp sounds as loud
as the crying of the storm. I know many
IN POSITION.
persons who can not boar to listen to this
crying music in the storm, but to the
majority the sounds are soothing and full
of beauty. When the traveler visits Stras
borg he wants first or nil to see the cathe
dreal with its wonderful clook, but when 'e
stops below one of the towers if the wind is
blowing hard he heara overhead a mil tem
poet of lovely music and his guide informs
fin that there are aeolian harps sot in the
great windows. The instruments are large
and are left exposed in lad weather, but the
wood is protected from the wet by varnish,
and does not become soaked and lose its
sounding quality,
At laden-Baden there is an old castle in
tihe windows of which are several eoolaia
harps and the whole air about the place is
filled with musical sounds during a storm.
With a little patience and care any buy
can construct an noolian harp and have
wnlo, as the wind wills it, all the year
round. EuOwUNr CoLLtNs.
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