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(11.7.2023)
Updated
Japanese
UNARI article with new pictures/text
(13.6.2023)
Added
new sound: the Japanese
Unari musical kite bow
(5.8.2021)
Added
new article on Harzgewinnung in
Südfrankreich (in German, et lien pour
l'article original
en Français…
(23.1.2021)
Added
new article on Sea-Urchins
transformed into Pigeon Whistles
(10.7.2019)
Added
new article in Pigon Whistles/ Piegon Flutes
and Black Forest Rosin manufacturing
(3.7.2019)
Added new version of Portuguese Windmill Sound Vessels in German and English
(8.4.2019)
Added
new article on wind generated
vibtations/ sounds on metal handrails
(3.1.2016)
Added
new article on Wind-Music in the
forest generated either naturally or using the tree's motion.
(1.5.2015)
Added
new pictures/ texts to Bamboo-Propeller
and Bamboo-Organ article.
(23.6.2014)
Added
new pictures/ maps/ texts to Dieu Sao (Vietnamese
Flute Kite) article.
(18.6.2014)
Added German translation of
Dieu
Sao - some preliminary notes of the Flute Kite of Vietnam.
by Paul Chapman and Uli Wahl
(7.6.2014)
Added
an article on the Humming in the Telegraph Wires"
"Das
Summen in den Telegraphendrähten"
by V. Strouhal (in German).
(10.11.2010)
Added
several new texts on the (military and
other) uses of Pigeon Whistles.
.
(19.10.2010)
Added
new text on pigeon whistles in military use
in France.
.
(3.1.2010)
Added
new text on Aeolian Harps by Billert;
found in Mendel; Musikalisches Lexikon 1870
.
(25.12.2009)
Added
new text by H.C.Koch (Musikalisches Lexikon anno 1801) on
the Aeolian Harp and his trials with the instrument.
.
(20.9.2009)
Added
new text and new pictures on the Austrian
way of resin production using black-pines.
.
(2.8.2009)
New
Pigeon Instrument! The Musical
Pigeon-Bow; an application of the Japanese
"Unari"-type kite bow..
.
(21.5.2009)
Added
a page with some pigeon whistles Taubenpfeifen
.
(6.2.2009)
Added
a copy of "Die
Äolsharfe - ein allegorischer Traum" by
Dalberg, Johann Friedrich Hugo
.
(16.1.2009)
Added
a copy
of Kastner's "La Harpe d'Éole" Troisième
partie.
.
(9.1.2009)
"On
the singing of telegraph wires", "Über das Singen der
Telegraphendrähte"; ein Original Artikel von 1852.
.
(4.1.2009)
Article
by Johann Jakob Hofmann "Aeolium
Instrumentum" in his Lexicon Universale; the
first mentioning of the name "Aeolian Harp" for the
windharp.
.
(27.12.2008)
Added
a copy
of Kastner's "La Harpe d'Éole" Deuxième partie.
.
(13.12.2008)
Added
a copy
of "Les Harpes Eoliennes"; an overview
on aeolian harps dating from 1883.
.
(3.8.2008)
Added
an article on the Stone
Whistles of the Ardenne Mountains in Belgium
(30.3.2008)
NEW:
Happily completed - Our
book :
"Musiques
du Vent" Musics of the Wind (currently in
French, translations in English and German planned)
.
(14.12.2007)
Added
an article on Aeolian Harp-trials done by
C.F.Quandt in 1795
.
(2.9.2007)
Added
German translation of Harned Pettus Hoose's
"Peking Pigeons and Pigeon Flutes, a lecture held in Peking in
1938.
.
(13.7.2007)
New
sound added: Aeolian Tones at
holes of a metal-tube construction...
.
(13.4.2007)
Added
an instruction for attaching pigeon
whistles and some thoughts on defending pigeons against birds of
prey...
.
(08.01.2007)
Plants
in building kites and wind-powered Aeolian musical
Instruments
Totally
High-Tec or not...?
.
(01.01.2007)
Harned
Pettus Hoose's "Peking Pigeons and Pigeon Flutes", a
lecture held in Peking in 1938.
.
(4.12.2006)
L'Attaque
et la Défense des Pigeons Messagers; a French original article and
German translation on the defense of messenger pigeons by
means of pigeon whistles.
.
(24.11.2006)
Added
a French original article and its German
translation on Pigeon Whistles in Beijing
.
(11.11.2006)
Added
a French original article (and German
translation) with b/w pictures (steel engravings) on Pigeon Whistles
in China
.
(13.10.2006)
Added
a copy of Hans Plischke's "Der
Fischdrachen", a very informative article on fishing
kites of the Pacific Ocean islands
.
(21.6.2006)
Pictures
and new sounds (sound1 +
sound2) of flute-carrying
pigeons (Meeting in Southeast Bavaria June 2006)
.
(9.6.2006)
Little
Correspondence article by Christin Friedrich
Quandt on the aeolian harp (in German)
.
(10.3.2006)
Article
on the "Animo-Cord", an instrument after the
principle of the aeolian harp, but with keyboard like a piano...
.
(20.2.2006)
Letter
of Johann Bernoulli/ Bale (Suisse) concerning the "weatherharp".
See transcription.
.
(22.10.2005)
New
original text by Matthew Young (German translation) on the Theory
of the Aeolian Harp.
.
(4.10.2005)
New
original text "On the Aeolian Harp" by William
Jones written in 1781
.
(13.9.2005)
Presentation
of the "Standard Aeolian Harp".
On request.it will be built for you...
.
(26.7.2005)
A
letter in German from 1799 how to use an aeolian harp...
.
(22.7.2005)
New
sound added. Original
Vietnamese Cai-Sao Kite Flute in flight...
(16.7.2005)
Transcription
of Athanasius Kircher's first description
of the Aeolian Harp.
.
(16.6.2005)
New
pictures of Javanese pigeon-flutes
.
(14.2.2005)
New
type of aeolian flute: Open
Labial Organ Flutes transformed for natural wind
.
(29.10.2004)
New
original text on Chladni sound patterns by J.G.Voigt with english
translation.
A practical guide on the method of
generating Chladni sound patterns.
.
(8.7.2004)
New
instrument: The Door-Aeolian-Harp.
A nice toy for stormy autumn days...
.
(6.7.2004)
New
sound of an original Nantong
flute kite by Marcia
Bujold http://www.windabove.com/
.
(25.6.2004)
New
sound generated by wind directly
at the cables of transmission lines (friction tones!
(see
below)
.
(13.6.2004)
New
part on sounds generated at transmission
line cables
.
(10.3.2004)
Translated
the whole Aeolian Harp page into english...
.
(29.11.2003)
New
article "Teltschik-Turm"
on sounds generated at banisters in an observation tower...
.
(30.9.2003)
New
sound examples: "Hanging
Aeolian Harp" with braided
strings...
and
"Longstring Aeolian Harp"
with polyfil twisted steel string...
.
(28.7.2003)
Text
on the trials on the "Arpa Meteorologica" done by
Berrettari in 1790 in Pistoia/ Italy.
(Longstring
Aeolian Harp)
.
(23.7.2003)
New
text on the "Giant Weather Harp" of 1787, an
aeolian harp for better weather forecast in Basel/ Suisse.
.
(20.5.2003)
Visible
sound...? The beautiful sound figures of
E.F.F.Chladni.
.
(27.2.2003)
A
new original text on Cesare
Gattoni's work done in 1785 in Italy on the longstring-Aeolian Harp,
the "Giant Weatherharp" (in Italian and German
only!)
.
(10.2.2003)
Readable
picture of the very first original text on the Aeolian
Harp.
Athanasius Kircher's
pages on "machina harmonica automata" or "machinamentum
X." in his "Musurgia Universalis (written in Latin)
.
(2.2.2003)
New
original text on the Aeolian Harp of
Kircher's "Phonurgia Nova" (German translation
dating from A.D.1673)
.
(6.1.2003)
New
original text on papermaking in a
papermaking village in Hanoi/ Vietnam.
.
(5.1.2003)
New
page on paper as a part of kites and of our daily life - in
German only!
.
(3.11.2002)
New
page on the Cambodian Khlèng Èk musical kite...
.
(19.8.2002)
Bamboo-Propeller
(baling-baling)-page translated into English...
.
(11.7.2002)
Updated
the bibliography, new articles
mainly on aeolian harps.
.
(9.7.2002)
Translation
of the "gap-tones" page
into English...
.
(24.6.2002)
A
new site on the "Goura"
the
only mouthblown stringed
wind musical instrument around
the world...
.
(19.5.2002)
Added
a new text on the old Hawaiian technique
of twisting cords on the bare thighs.
Also a note of
Lord Rayleigh from 1884 on an
experiment he made in his bathtub - pure fluid mechanics...
.
(28.4.2002)
New
sound examples of the famous bamboo propellers of Bali:
a
big "baling-baling" and a little
one of 60cm blade diameter
.
(27.4.2002)
Improved
page on Rosin and translated it into English.
.
(24.3.2002)
"Pinjakan"
bamboo propellers ("baling-baling ") an
exceptional noisemaker...
.
(4.2.2002)
New
page: Gap-Tones. Generation of tones at
door-/ window-slits...
.
(4.2.2002)
A
copy of an article of the Vietnam
News/ Vietnam Agency on Vietnam Flute Kites
.
(18.1.2002)
Added
two new sounds generated by the wind at door-gaps in a
stairwell.
A low-pitched
double-tone at a narrow but wide slit at the door's bottom
and
a high-pitched
double-tone at the vertical part of the doorframe (just two
edges)
.
(9.1.2002)
Added
a few new texts/ poems/ pictures to the
Aeolian Harp site.
.
(29.11.2001)
Added
a typical background noise at
a location of beautiful aeolian harps.
.
(22.11.2001)
A
new text on the Chinese custom of
"pigeon-warfaring" (considering a non musical
aspect...)
.
(5.11.2001)
Kite
Flutes from Kalimantan-Island/ Indonesia (with sound
example)
.
(1.10.2001)
A
sound example of the "Hanging
Windharp"
.
(29.9.2001)
Delicious
sounds of the "Weeping Bamboo". (see the Bamboo
Aeolian Organ)
.
(26.9.2001)
New
texts on the "Goura" or
"Lesiba" a close relative to the Aeolian Harp and
the Musical Kite Bow.
.
(3.8.2001)
Aeolian
Harp forever... some "new" old texts and pictures
of old windharp sites some 200 years ago...
.
(24.7.2001)
Some
new pictures and text on the famous
"Weibertreu" Aeolian-Harps
.
(10.5.2001)
A
new original text on "Aeolian
Bamboo-Organs" in the southern part of the Salomon-Islands.
.
(29.4.2001)
A
new text on the continuation of Gattoni's
longstring experiments by Mr.Ventan in Basle, Switzerland.
.
(20.4.2001)
Bamboo-Aeolian-Organ;
an old Multitone Aeolian Flute made of a Bamboo-culm.
.
(19.3.2001)
"Wind-Harmonica";
a sound generated by an Aeolian
Harmonica.
.
(17.3.2001)
"Edgetone";
a sound generated by friction-vortexes at a doorframe by the
natural wind.
.
(17.2.2001)
A
new original text in German by
Vincenc Cénék Strouhal
"Über
eine besondere Art der Tonerregung"
An
excerpt of his habilitation work (Univ. Würzburg,
Germany) on a new method of tone/ sound-generation. Basics on
the Aeolian Harp and other stringed Aeolian Instruments.
"Wire
tones" and "Friction tones".
.
(2.12.2000)
A
new page on resin, rosin and good music
.
(25.10.2000)
A
new recording: FLAT Steel Wire
on the Longstring Aeolian Harp.
.
(8.9.2000)
A
new text on the first mentioning of
the Aeolian Harp/ Wind Harp.
In Musurgia Universalis
by Athanasius Kircher,
Rome/ Italy A.D.1650) and also its first mentioning in Europe as
a musical instrument inside of kites.
.
(6.6.2000)
The
Aeolian Harp. The instrument and its mysteries.
.
(12.5.2000)
A
new text, a copy from the newspaper
"Vietnam News" on the Vietnamese Flute Kites.
.
(24.4.2000)
The
tin-can aeolian harp, a simple wind instrument.
.
(14.4.2000)
New
sound: Pigeon Flutes from Lombok/
Indonesia; acoustic street-scene in a small village...
Hier
auf Deutsch...
.
(13.4.2000)
Nice
text with b/w picture from 1890 "La
Nature" on the musical kite of Tonking (in French)
.
(23.3.2000)
Some
new Pigeon Whistles.
.
(20.3.2000)
The
German "Windhexe" (=
wind-witch), an aeolian wind musical instrument in
architecture.
.
(17.3.2000)
A
new kite instrument, the "uli-uli"
from Sumatra-Island.
.
(11.3.2000)
Some
new pictures of pigeon
whistles from Indonesia.
.
(18.2.2000)
The
mysterious "Wolf-Tile"
(tuile à loup, Wolfsziegel), a sounding tile in old rural houses of
Russia and Europe...
.
(21.1.2000)
The
"Toulouhou", "Cicada" or "Waldteufel",
a children's toy...for making some awful noise.
.
(26.12.1999)
The
Longstring Aeolian Harp. Hommage to the Giant
Weather-Harp built by Abbate Gattoni in Italy in 1785.
.
(26.12.1999)
Singing
Portuguese Windmills. Aeolian Flutes on Portuguese
Windmills.
(26.12.1999)
Bamboo;
on processing bamboo.
.
(17.11.1999)
Have
a look at the New Bamboo Newsgroup!!! Bamboo
Forum (deja.com) rec.gardens.bamboo
Deutsches
Bambus Forum: http://www.bambus.de
.
(21.10.1999)
Some
new sounds were added.
.
(16.9.1999)
New
article in the "Physics" part on the "von
Kármán-Vortex-Streets (Animated)" behind the swinging
musical string and the induction of a tone....
.
(8.8.1999)
Some
nice new sounds of my old aeolian
harp, sounds of kite lines etc. and a longstring aeolian harp
following the experiments of Mr.Gattoni/ Como (Italy) in the year
1785. Have fun with it!
.
(23.4.1999)
Some
pictures of Aeolian Instruments
from Dieppe/F and Berck-sur-Mer/F Sound Gardens.
The next
sound-garden event hopefully will be at the LÜNEN-kite
festival 15-17.10.1999 (Germany).
.
(26.3.1999)
Literature
updated (Musical instruments for kites, aeolian instruments in
general, pigeon flutes)
.
(23.3.1999)
A
new part of the Pigeon Flute
page: Special trilling
pigeon whistles and
whistling pigeon bells of Pierre Fabre in German
and English.
.
(21.2.
and 6.3.1999)
New pages on rope-tail
making from natural
fibres.
.
(19.1.1999)
New
text on Cai-Sao kite flute (German translation of the French
original) with picture.
(16.1.1999)
Pigeon
Flutes. A page with pictures and sound example on the
nearest "relatives" of Kite flutes.
(31.12.1998)
Sound
examples; How were they made?
(25.12.1998)
A
new short "Zanonia" page
on the legendary flying seed, with pictures, in
German.
(3.11.1998)
Gray,
John Henry (M.A. LL.D.)
China
A History of the Laws,
Manners and Customs of the People
London, Macmillan and Co.
1878, Vol.1, pp.269-270
In English;
excerpt of a text, describing the pastime
of kite flying in China, citation of metallic strings in
sound-kites
(3.11.1998)
Harmand,
J.
Sur le Cerf-Volant Musical de Cambodge
La Nature,
Vol.9, Nr. 404, 26.2.1881; pp.202-203
In
French; citation of an original
article on the Cambodian Musical kite. (Klaing Aik/ Klén èk)
(28.10.1998)
An
excerpt of
Berthold Laufer
"Guide
to the Exhibition of the Chinese Collections of the American Museum
of Natural History"
In
English; describing the collection of pigeon whistles of the
AMNH.
(28.10.1998)
S.
Kurz
"Indian Forester" of Jan. 1976.
In
English; excerpt, describes the famous "Plaintive
or weeping Bamboo".
(26.10.1998)
Hoose,
Harned Pettus
Peking Pigeons and Pigeon-Flutes
Peking,
1938
In English; excerpts
from a lecture delivered in 1938 at the
"College of
Chinese Studies at the California College in China at Peking"
(12.10.1998)
Porée-Maspero,
Eveline
Étude sur les Rites Agraires des
Cambodgiens
"Le Cerf-Volant"
Tome II, Paris
Mouton &Co., La Haye, 1964 pp. 490-491 ( Übersetzung aus dem
Französischen; Auszug des Textes;
German
translation of the french orig. text with a decription
of the manufacturing of an Èk, the Cambodian Version of a kite
bow, making a very special sound like the "miou" of the
cats.
(16.7.1998)
Tissandier,
Gaston
Les Cerfs-Volants des Chinois
La Nature, 1888;
Vol.16, Pt.1, pp.44-46 (Excerpt of the text)
English
version of another text on the
"Cai-sao" kite flute.
(16.7.1998)
Mahillon,
Victor Charles
Cataloque Descriptif et Analytique du Musée
Instrumental Du Conservatoire Royal De Musique De Bruxelles,
1833-1922
Bruxelles, Vol.3, pp.310-311
German
translation of the french orig. text with
a description of the tuning and musical performance of the "Cai-Sao"
kite flute
(16.7.1998)
Ngo-Quy-Son
Jeux
de cerfs volants (2)
In : Activités de la Société Enfantine
Annamite du Tonkin
Edit.:Institut Indochinois pour l’Étude
de l’Homme
1943, Band 6, pp.114-119, pp. 94,95 Abb. VI und
VII
Reprint under the titel "Jeux d'enfants du Vietnam",
Ed. Sudestasie, 1985
German
translation of the french original text
on the Dieu Vang kite from the
Tonking district in Vietnam, the original way of construction
using nothing but natural materials. Its special kite flute
"Cai-Sao":
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