Talk:Aeolian harp

Untitled (2008)
This would be great with a sound clip!! Benitoite (talk) 01:48, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Agreed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ZUaeqZsLY — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.114.73.71 (talk) 17:49, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Untitled (2009)
I think there is a mistake in this article, but not being familiar with the science involved, I am not sure how to correct it. In the 'Operation' section it says "The motion of the wind across a string causes perioding vortex downstream and this alternating vortex causes the string to vibrate". I am sure this is grammatically incorrect, but should it read causes a perioding vortex, or maybe causes perioding vortices, or causes a periodic vortex? I am hesitant to change it as I am not familiar with the von Karman vortex street effect to which the sentence refers. Myrtacea (talk) 08:02, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Bill Neely's Wind Harps
It would be really nice to see some mention of the most beautiful wind harps possibly ever created, such as those created by Bill Neely. One was commissioned as a centerpiece to the Native American shopping center that used to exist in central New Mexico called "Tempest Song," a wind-played art piece. Neely created two wind harps over the years, one of which still stands on his private property. He granted me the privilege of spending the night beneath its sound-vanes about ten years ago.

Here is a link pertaining to Neely's work with the wind harp:


 * http://www.nfo.edu/family/tempestsong.htm

All other pertinent links to Neely's work with the wind harp branch off from this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.142.254.13 (talk) 01:08, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Notes About My Recent Edits
I spent a lot of time today adding information to this article but there are some areas where it doesn't mention enough. I didn't go into too much detail about the history or prevalence of Aeolian harps Because I couldn't find any great sources about either of those topics, but if there are any anthropologists and ethnomusicologists here who can add information there it would bring this article up even more. Also, sometime in the future somebody in the future might wanna go through the article and clean up sections of it, namely the "In literature and music" and "Monumental Aeolian harps" sections, as they feel and look a little sporadic. I think that's enough time spent on one article in one sitting, though. Thank you and have a nice day! --DoDososeSe (talk) 04:47, 12 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Also I should've noted this Yesterday but there is a problem with one of the sources I found. The creator of Tempest Song claims its strings are tuned C, D, Eb, G, Bb in three octaves, which it claims is the minor pentatonic scale, except it isn't. I assumed this was an accident and noted Tempest Song was tuned to a minor pentatonic scale but I didn't specify further. If anybody knows any more information about the instrument it would be extremely helpful to clear this up. DoDososeSe (talk) 18:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Dubious or wrong statement
"Besides being the only string instrument played solely by the wind, the Aeolian harp is also the only string instrument that plays solely harmonic frequencies.[1]" The Tromba Marina also plays solely harmonic frequencies as stated on its page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tromba_marina Also the PDF linked by the footnote [1] looks rather dubious and not very scholarly. http://www.shopsmithacademy.com/SS_Archives/SS111/SS111_Ringmaster_1_files/images/Wind%20Harp%20Physics.pdf In general it seems to be setting you up to be shot down if you make claims such as "the only..." since someone will surely come along with an exception. But I hesitate just to delete this two sentences without commenting here first. 85.210.190.78 (talk) 18:40, 19 February 2022 (UTC)