Hated Learning Piano As a Kid? At Least It Wasn’t the Wheelharp

TheWheelharplooks like a melodious creative activity dating back to the time of Beethoven and Mozart , but believe it or not it ’s not an antique . It ’s a modern instrument co - invented by Jon Jones and Mitchell Manger , based on an pawn created just over ten eld ago by Jones as a path to let a single musician command their own train orchestra .

All - in - all the performing artist has access to 61 bowed strings covering a sweeping chromatic musical scale , but the Wheelharp is actually played from a keyboard , arranged horizontally or in an arc . Learning to play it belike take a heck of a lot of practice session , but the event are more natural sounds consanguine to a classical string musical instrument alternatively of a modern synthesizer .

The most elaborate rendering of the Wheelharp , covering five musical octave , is price at$11,900 . But if four or three octaves are all you require , you could get tawdry versions for$10,900and$9,900respectively . It ’s expensive , but the one in a million prospect you ’re dine with friend and there ’s a Wheelharp in the elbow room , imagine how impressed they ’ll be with your skills . [ Antiquity MusicviaNeatorama ]