Weigel harp
The Weigel harp is a chromatic harp with one string of strings.
history
The harpist Karl Weigel had the instrument patented on February 16, 1900. It is strung with 54 equally spaced strings. The instrument exhibited in the Deutsches Museum in Munich is a conversion of an Erard double pedal harp . The diameter of the strings suggests that the string tension is almost the same as that of the concert harp, but with a smaller distance. The instrument received hardly any attention.
literature
- Arpa cromatica Weigel . Florence 1908
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabina Kerkhoff: The Naderman harp in the musical instrument collection of the University of Göttingen: a French instrument of the 18th century as a machine, sculpture, furniture, prestige fetish, commodity and sound tool . (= Volume 14 of Orbis musicarum ) Edition Re, Ramaswamy 1998
- ^ Curt Sachs: The Lexicon of Musical Instruments . Reprint from 1913, Dogma Verlag, p. 81