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Joined: February 2016 Posts: 1769 Location: When?? | Nothing too profound. Just thought I’d toss in something oddball style. A year ago my wife had to close down her salon because of Covid-19-- but that’s okay since she wanted out of the business anyway. So there it sat with a 28-year-old grandfathered lease rate I just couldn’t bring myself to walk away from. It’s a four-room suite with private bath on the ground floor of an office building, so with some handy retrofitting I hauled off and turned it into a really nifty studio (especially at night with no one around and we can rattle windows). I’m quite happy with it. It also has the proverbial “back room”. You know.. where the smoking, drinking, cussing, poker and rude jokes mostly take place. Very comfy in there. Anyway, a few months back I invented a “wall harp” on one of that room’s walls. Anytime anyone actually finishes a recording project in the studio they are free to place a new string onto the harp. All it really amounts to are rubber bands of various colors stretched between push-pins. Essential rule is that it has to be placed as an extension onto one of the open ends, cannot cross another segment, or block the path. Object is to stretch it to a pitch unique apart from the others so when you walk up and ‘twang’ on the thing you can actually create music. So there. Just thought y’all may like to know that about half of the harp segments so far have resulted from projects and recording sessions that used an Ovation product at some point or another. Any ideas on how to calculate its scale length?? (Wall Harp.jpg) Attachments ----------------  Wall Harp.jpg (115KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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