Aeolian Harps

Aeolian Harps are an instrument played by the wind. They are named after Aeolus, the greek god of the wind. Aeolian harps create a beautiful, some what haunting, ambient sound as the strings resonate with one another. I learned about Aeolian harps after taking an American Literature class. Aeolian Harps became a central point of discussion amongst authors in the 19th century after Henry David Thorea, in Walden, compares a thunderstorm to an Aeolian Harp. Herman Melville later wrote a poem "Aeolian Harp" which rejects Thoreau's Romanticist view on storms, and instead creates a scene of a ship wrecked to havoc by a storm. Whichever view you take, I would like to place some of these harps around St.Edward's campus in order to add to the beauty of the scenery.

-Dillon Schuh