Aeolian harp

Japanese: エオリアン･ハープ（英語表記）aeolian harp

The lyre is a stringed instrument whose strings are made to sound by the wind. Its name comes from Aiolos, the Greek god of wind. Its origins are legendary, with one story being that Hermes created the instrument after seeing the tendons remaining in a dried turtle's shell making a sound in the wind, and another story is about the mysterious nature of the instrument producing sound spontaneously. The instrument is made up of a funnel-shaped part that collects the wind, connected to a square lyre with many strings stretched across it, and is fixed to a window frame or installed outdoors to wait for the wind. A clear description of the instrument begins in Kircher's Universal Art of Music (1650), but it was mainly used in everyday life in England and Germany in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

風が弦を鳴らす琴。その名はギリシアの風神アイオロスAiolosに由来する。発端は伝説的で，干からびた亀の甲羅に残っていた腱などが風に鳴っていたのを見たヘルメスが弦楽器を作ったというほか，ひとりでに音が出る神秘性を扱った説がある。風を集める漏斗状の部分と多数の弦が張られた方形の琴が連結されており，窓枠に固定したり戸外に据え付けて風を待つ。明確な記述はキルヒャーの《普遍的音楽技法》(1650)に始まるが，日常的に用いられたのはおもに18,19世紀のイギリス，ドイツである。

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