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Web Harp
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A tightly stretched web is suspended from the inside corner of a vaulted ceiling. Each radial strand is a cable, while each cross strand is a harp string of varying length tuned to each note of the musical scale.
A mechanical spider moves about the web plucking it's pre-programmed melodies with four legs as the other four change it's position on the web.

Four tons of pull for a normal harp http://www.richard-...past/rtstrings.html
[Voice, Oct 07 2008]

Harp nomenclature http://www.infovisual.info/04/029_en.html
[Voice, Oct 07 2008]

Laser "Light Harp" http://www.blueink.com/lasers/index.htm
pluck by breaking beam [csea, Oct 07 2008]

Slightly less intricate than this. http://www.darkroas...cal-instrument.html
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 07 2008]

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       Your ceiling will have to be made of carbon composite.
—Voice, Oct 07 2008
   

       The strings could be made (of) light [link].   

       Sounds like the intention (in tension?) is to place cables from floor to ceiling, then have the harp "strings" strung horizontally between cables. The tension at the apex could be managed by a (steel and concrete) dome structure that would be in compression, and therefore quite strong. +
—csea, Oct 07 2008
   

       sounds and *looks* beautiful! +
—xandram, Oct 07 2008
   

       Cool [+].   

       An ideal present for Arachnophiles.
—8th of 7, Oct 07 2008
   


 

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