Posts tagged harp
Henry Dagg’s “Sharpsichord” is a big barrel harp with two enormous metal amplifying cones and a hand crank. In this video you can watch him play “The Long and Winding Road” (along with a singer who sings along through a copper megaphone). Mechanical music, alive and well!
You can see another video and read more about it at BBC News.
update: and from tbon, a perhaps more awesome version that replaces the vocal line with a musical saw part:
