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NEW ENGLAND WINDHARPS
Welcome to the NEW ENGLAND WINDHARPS web site. 
Windharps are handmade boxes that are used as sound boards. The top has adjustable harp strings for different types of wind strength. Below the strings are amplification holes. These are used to make even the most subtle of sounds be heard. Above all this, there is a four legged cover that channels all of the breeze into the instrument. Gently close the window to meet the cover and listen. For even more help, open another window as much as weather permits on the same floor. This will create a convection that is truly amazing. The wind will draw across the strings in one direction creating one type of music, then when the wind changes direction, it will go out the window creating another type of music.
The effects of this music can actually be felt as well as heard. You can relax at night listening to your own exclusive new age music being performed for your home alone. It has a very calming effect during sleeping. My children have been listening to its melody even before they were born. I often wondered how it must sound to a baby inside the liquid filled womb. During heavy wind storms just prior to a thunderstorm my windharp takes on a different attitude. It can almost be like a symphony. The subtle stringed sounds are fading in the background just as a strong gust will escalate into a resonating sound wave breaking in the room and filling the house with different sounds that are singing of the storm that is on it's way. You may almost imagine what more than one windharp in the same house can be like. The irregular patterns of the wind at different areas of your home will produce different songs, but they will all be connected because the of the fluid nature of wind. The violin section of the orchestra playing different parts simultaneously to create a splendid show for the listener.
As I have said before, feeling music can be a very moving experience. Many of your senses will be mingled during each piece. The calmness that will permeate your home will feel as though your house is alive. You may wonder how you have gone so long with a silent home. While away, you may even miss the sensations you have experienced at home . I certainly notice the emptiness of a different place when I am relaxing and feeling a breeze that has no song. I would sit and wonder what a beach house sounds like compared to a hot desert wind.
 Do the songs have a common thread?
 Are they geographically exclusive?
 Can the effects on the body be different at these locations?
 May one song be inspiring, while another suggests inward retrospection?
There is only one way to find out if these answers are out there. Buy one and try it out. You will see for yourself how moving it is. You may become very attached to it and want another, or you may want to pass this sensation on to another person. You may find yourself trying to explain it to a friend. I know how difficult that can be. The sound is as elusive as a passing feeling or notion. I am sure you will love this instrument and cherish it as you would any loved possession. There are many gifts from this earth. I feel that the wind is as beautiful as any landscape or ocean smell. What can be more perfect than a song from the soul of the earth?
Thank you for visiting us.
John Erwin
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