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Some of the steel strings (there are 29 in total!) and corresponding adjusting pegs of my monochord instrument, that I built this summer.
They are attached to pegs on the sound board, on the upper part of the instrument, which allows to adjust their tension. After going round a smooth 90° bend, they rest on a brass rod that transmits their vibrations to the wooden resonance body.
On a monochord, all the strings are tuned to the same tone. In my case, the last six are made of brass and are tuned an octave lower.
12 March 2008
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Selling my guitar. I never did learn to play and it's taking up too much room in my tiny flat.
Flapping wildly in my kitchen window, this maple leaf suspended by spider silk was too much to resist.
Light Art in the stream "The Little Stream" (Swedish "Lillån"). Arranged by Alingsås Energy Company in cooperation with "Flowers of Life". It is one of the extra light installations during the event "Lights in Alingsås 2024".
Alingsås Municipality organises the event Lights in Alingsås every autumn. Since 2000 the municipality has worked with the PLDA (Professional Lighting Designers´ Association). Every year in september/october leading international lighting designers come to Alingsås to hold a week´s workshop with participants from all over the world. Together they light a number of buildings and locations around the town centre. Around 70,000 people come every year to see the designs during the month-long event.
www.lightsinalingsas.se/en (website in English and Swedish)
Taken at the Boston Public Gardens.
Someone was kind of enough to let me know that the instrument was a hurdy-gurdy. Here's what Wikipedia says: "The hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument that produces sound by a crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin. Melodies are played on a keyboard that presses tangents — small wedges, typically made of wood — against one or more of the strings to change their pitch. Like most other acoustic stringed instruments, it has a sound board to make the vibration of the strings audible."
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The beginning of spring and the first flowering tree. White blossoming apple-tree in the background of lines of vineyards.Moravian rolling landscape.Europe, Czech Republic.
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For the group Macromondays , March 4, theme "Music"
50mm lens + extension tube.
Thanks Fafa for the guitar!