When worshippers arrive at Salem Lutheran Church in Tomball for Christmas Eve services, they'll enter more than a sanctuary. They'll be stepping into a musical instrument. Its strings will span the ...

Los Angeles musician William Close holds the world record for the longest stringed instrument, a device he invented and has played around the world called the Earth Harp. Close uses resin-coated ...

William Close tells the crowd at City National Plaza that he's still figuring out the logistics of his latest Earth Harp. Over the years, the Malibu-based artist has built a number of these large, ...

Imagine you could shrink to the size of an ant and slip inside a cello while it’s being played. That is what the audience will experience when William Close and the Earth Harp Collective performs as ...

Violin, viola, cello, double bass and harp are classical family members, but your suggestions may take a bow to other genres and pluck out many a musical gem I felt, at first, the sudden clasp of ...

For the past 25 years Micah and Shoshanna Harrari have been manufacturing Biblical style harps and lyres in their workshop. They spoke to Israel National Radio about how they began, why they do it and ...

An instrument long associated with angels and virtue plucks its way across musical genres and social media. By Alexis Garcia “I am not the quintessential image of a harpist,” said Brandee Younger, 37, ...

David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop, in southern ...