Henry Dagg pass four twelvemonth building this gigantic pin barrel harp , commissioned for a London garden . It ’s eventually finish but is too fragile for the outdoors . Listen to it bring " A Long and Winding Road " and excogitate on its fate .
Dagg , a former sound engine driver for the BBC and self - styled sound sculptor , received a £ 56,000 concession in 2006 to construct the solar powered instrument for the garden of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London . After four years of “ blood , sweat and tear , ” the legal document is complete , but Dagg is now seeking a lasting indoor domicile for the creation , which he call the Sharpsichord .
The legal document is a steel monstrosity , with two huge gramophones and over 11,000 holes on a rotating piston chamber for pegs that pluck the instrument ’s tune up strings . song are programme peg by peg , Federal Reserve note by tone , this rendition of the Beatles ’ “ Long and Winding Road ” taking Dagg over a solar day to put together . In the telecasting Dagg crank the Sharpsichord to turn the piston chamber but a solar powered motor is intended to power the finished twist .
As you hear Dagg ’s henchman Chris Wood sing the the melancholy lines “ many clock time I ’ve been alone , and many times I ’ve cried , ” its firmly not to think that they ’re describing the hulking , homeless instrument itself . I just hope there ’s a billet for the Sharpsichord at the final stage of its long and winding road . [ TelegraphviaNeatorama ]
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