Long string instrument

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The long string instrument, invented by the American composer Ellen Fullman, is tuned in just intonation and played by walking along the length of its approximately 100 90-foot-long strings and rubbing them with rosined hands and producing longitudinal vibrations. A C-clamp is used on each string for tuning, much like a guitar capo. The Long String Instrument's range is centered on the octave of middle C and extends above and below this by an octave. The strings of the bass octave extend the instrument's full 90 feet.

[edit] History

Fullman (b. Memphis, Tennessee, 1957) is a composer who studied sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute. She has performed with the Deep Listening Band, Kronos Quartet^[1] and Paul Panhuysen. Her early pieces were notated with choreography.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://radiom.org/detail.php?omid=OMF.2002.03.09.01

*Fullman, Ellen. The Long String Instrument. Holland: Apollo Records, 1985. (worldcat)

[edit] External links

• Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument Photographs from the Flanders Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2003
• Ellen Fullman. "Long String Instrument Installation". http://www.ellenfullman.com/production/LSI_tek_info_feet.pdf. Retrieved 2008-07-30. 

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