Wind Harp Live!

Its not too difficult to add live audio to your own web page. You will need to get Windows Media Encoder, a free program found here. To broadcast the sound on the internet, I connected the harp to the microphone input of my PC and run Windows Media Encoder. A good tutorial on setting up live broadcasting can be found here. For the listener to hear the harp, I made a web page to launch Windows Media Player using the HTML code example found at this webpage . If it is windy and I actually have Windows Media Encoder running, you should be able to connect by going to My Wind Harp page.
You can learn more about my wind harp project by viewing some of my earlier blogs about the subject.

Wind Harp Experiments

After reading a lot about wind harps and hearing the awesome sounds they make, I decided to give it a try. I strung a steel wire between two "C" clamps separated by almost eight feet. The support is a 2" by 2" by 8 feet long pine stud I got from Home Depot. Each C clamp has a hole drilled on the side with a eye bolt installed to support the wire. The eyebolt is tensioned untill a nice tone is heard when plucked.

Photo on the left show pickup placed near the wire.

Photo on the right show the whole thing, about 8 feet high.

So I don't have to use a sounding board to make the sounds audible, I used a magnetic pick up and a Radio Shack amplifier to amplify the delicate vibrations. As the wind "plucks" the string, musical notes and harmonic vibrations could be heard.

A 3 inch C clamp holds the wire on each end.

You can hear what my wind harp sounds like at this link.

The Harp I made just uses one string to prove it works. Now imagine using several strings.

Plastic Wind Organs

It's pretty common to see and hear wind chimes outside of peoples homes. But how about something different.

Those two liter plastic soda bottles make great Wind Organs.

Here is the website where I got the idea.

They really sound great when the wind really gets going.
I plan to set up a whole row of these things and let the wind blow.

Aeolian Laboratory for other sounds.