Upon discovering Gregg Miner's Museum of Vintage, Exotic and Just Plain Unusual Musical Instruments in Tarzana, Calif., a couple years ago, Weekend Edition essayist Tim Brookes saw something called a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. String player William Close is one musician who likes to think big. Very big. Close plays his own invention, the earth harp, which uses ...

William Close is getting ready to string a skyscraper. As the inventor of the Earth Harp, which holds the Guinness World Record for being the longest stringed instrument, it’s a task he knows well.

String Theory’s “harps” are instruments unlike anything King David ever played. Or Harpo Marx, for that matter. The strings are attached to hollow, shaped boxes or soundboards: The small one, a ray ...

A unique, free concert experience will be staged in central Iowa next week featuring what’s known as a long-string harp with strings that will extend across a downtown Des Moines street, from a ...

Three million people visit Mt. Laguna every year to camp, hike, or play in the snow, yet virtually none of them realize they have driven right by one of the most exclusive and renowned harp-string ...