Wind Harp - Aeolian Harp on the Irish coast 

Here's another, longer wind harp video for you: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pFBKgCk_Uzg.html

Makes me think of how the 6th ode in The Odes of Solomon begins: ”As the wind moves through the lyre, making the strings speak, so the spirit of the Lord speaks throughout my limbs, making me speak by his love. (Nuhra translation)

No music is as heavenly as that made by an aoelian harp. It is a beautiful occurence of nature,but it has a spiritual parallel. The harp is nothing but a wooden box with strings attached in harmony,waiting to be touched by the unseen fingers of the wandering wind. As breath of heaven floats over the strings,notes that are nearly divine float upon the air, as if a choir of angles were wondering about and touching the strings. Just beautiful! Thank you

The first time I played harp outdoors and this happened I was totally entranced as were those around me who heard this ethereal sound

The sound is quite loud and can be heard over a distance of, say, 100 or 200 m. The microphone helped to isolate the harp sound from the wind noises.

This must be one of the most beautiful sounds that I´ve heard in my life.

I was inspired to find this, because today I found a nice place to place my lap harp and suddenly the wind caught my notes and resonated them. As if God and the angels came down to have a turn. It really eased my soul and I took my time to let the wind play as it wanted to. A Divine duet!

I’m learning etude op 25 no. 1, so I thought I’d listen to an actual aeolian harp.

I wish this video was a little longer. Say, about sixteen hours or so. I'd have it on all day.

I love the idea behind this instrument! I know what's happening here, but I'm surprised it's so loud. Wind is an example of "Pink noise". Noise is lots of frequencies being heard all at the same time; maybe hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. You can't pick out any notes, because there are so many. It just sounds like...noise! The aeolian harp plays only certain frequencies. Those frequencies are in the sound of the wind, so it resonates them in the strings.

In Melbourne Australia it is common for industrial buildings to have wires tensioned across the roofs to stop birds landing. In a brisk breeze the wires act just like Aeolian harps.

nature's touch is sublime.

If anyone is interested in hearing additional (and longer) Aeolian Harp recordings look for the CD "Windsongs: The Sound of the Aeolian Harp" put out by the Musical Heritage Society. It may or may not still be in print. It's a must hear.

It's the wind breathing and conveying it's beautiful mind.

the most beautiful sound i heard

Angels praising God ❤️

Why does this reminds me of Minecraft?

Calming otherworldly music...If I was there sitting in a comfy couch, looking at the sea, sipping a good drink, munching some pizza and chocolate ice cream...okay a bit much (clearly an obese person's dream)...it would be heavenly. Well, seems like the wind plays a better music than the ocean (the morske orgulje in Zadar Beach, Croatia).

I have so many words to say how beautiful this video is at present. Aerolian harp music is absolutely a great art!

Absolutely charming, and gorgeously spellbinding,,,,where are the welsh witches,and fairies??,,,,,,

Relationship between science and nature being seamless💝

I've only recently discovered what an Aeolian Harp actually is! Amazing sound - ethereal and eerie. It casts certain pieces of classical music in a different light (e.g. Chopin op25/1)

This is the best wind harp sound I've found

very calming

I love this. Thank you!

Fantastique! celeste,un pur bonheur!

all of earth sings..we don't hear but there is the most magnificeby symphony playing all the time..we life inside it..i live at coast ..wake up as the first bird makes a sound and go listen to how everything..birds .waves .trees .all .harmonises in a splait second. and I listen to the morning song of earth..no sound of card here . its earth singing AT us...and we never tune in to listen

:D nice idea and place

so majestic 👌

Reminds me of the beginning of Us and Them by Pink Floyd

Goosebumps good; both sound and scenery.. thanks for sharing

The gods whisltin' a tune.

soundtrack for a sad or alone scene!

coleridge has dedicated to this instrument a beautiful poem

I'd love having listening to a stream of this

Wow!!!

Beautiful.

there is a wind harp erected at Rosal/naver forest Sutherland Highlands

Any harp will do this. Just take care it doesn't get blown over. I played harp and sang at a graveside service and the wind participated every so often. A traditional wind harp or Aeolian harp is rectangular, often placed on the sill of a double hung window. All twelve strings are tuned to the same note and the rising and falling of wind velocity brings out different notes in the harmonic series above the fundamental tuning, American transcendental writers wrote about wind harps.

I BELIEVE.

Without wishing to sound hippy-dippy, you should read the Irish poet John Montague's short poem "Windharp" while listening to this.

i'm here because of chopin's op25.no1. i'm sure this'll help students to understand the sound effect.

Hi Séan, no worries whatsoever, this video has a Creative Commons license and can be used freely. Please post your video when it's finished! :)

I want to make a temple made with these integral to the design with directed wind flow

beautiful!

So pretty

Lovely🎼

Most interesting.

The Eolian Harp by Samual Taylor Coleridge brought me here.

transcendent

Goodness

how can anyone give this a thumbs down??!!

What would happen if you touched or played a string?

This is excellent. I was wondering, are you planning on undertaking any more of these recordings in the near future? I'm currently in Limerick Institute of Technology and working on my final year project. It's called 'Elements' and its essentially an ambient EP which is inspired by three of natures elements: air, water and earth. I've been recording some interesting things, like underwater recordings and for the air element of the track I built a basic wind harp and although I am getting some interesting sound out of it, it's not a patch on this. Now, perhaps it's the environment but may also be the strings? All my strings are the same guage. They are 0.45 nylon fishing line. Perhaps they need to be different guages? I also can see from your video, that I must place the contact mic INSIDE the body! But getting sidetracked haha, if you were ever recording like this again I'd love to help out or take part in the session and get some of these recordings for my own projects if you were okay with that? Anyway, great video, thanks for sharing!

now we know how the wind "sounds" ?

Great, thanks. I produce World Music-driven Downtempo Trip Hop stuff. It probably won't be a video for the moment but I'll post a link to the track when its ready. Lovely harp playing in your other videos! I much prefer to gather samples then to use robotic-sounding MIDI samplers.

Reminds me of summer forest from spyro

om.....om....om.....

Eerie Érie.

Reminds me of Artificial Intelligence (the movie).

Beautiful harp, beautiful setting! :-) My 'harps' all sound like UFOs and aliens! I have a set of guitar strings, though and your video encourages me to make something out of them a bit more 'tuned'!

I did DMT once and I heard this sound

In Finland u call it Tuulikannel...

What is the main difference in terms of construction between a conventional harp and an aeolian harp? Are they essentially the same instrument but just used in a different way?

Really enjoyed the video! Which mic did you use?

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Dear harfenspieler , I'm from South India Can I use this music as a sound score for my shortfilm please ? I hope the author was you , so I could mention your name at the video itself. Can I use it ? Thank you

starting at 1:15 I swear I can almost hear a voice but I can't make out the words.

sounds like minecraft ngl

What county in Ireland is this, Kerry?

hi is it cold there

Is it plugged into something?

Do they actually sound that loud? Or is it because there is a microphone to it?

Can You tell something about recording process and recording equipment?

What kinda of set up do you have?

Does this happen with all harps or do you need a special one?

Odin is playing a tune

Jesus Christ is Lord ✝️ Maranatha

Amazing the harp didn’t fall over with the Atlantic breezes! Where was it filmed?

李永乐

Where i can buy this instrument?

they just figured out a way to make energy out of this thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windbelt

I tried to reproduce it using a home eletric fan but nothing happend… :-( How was it tuned? Could you record it tuned to a pentatonic tuning, say C, D, E#, F, G, A, B#?

the Aeolian harp's strings are looser than a regular (I wish I had one

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I'm making a song with this. Will share it soon (please don't sue me for copyright)! Sláinte!

Minecraft music

japanese KOTO箏 also wind 、Here ! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m8nWypwhJbQ.html

Where's the drop?

What a irritating sound. That sound would drive you nuts listening to that all day long

disgusting discords forever, how unnecessary,,