A prominent attraction at this year’s Bumbershoot Festival, the “Space Harp” was formed out of 6,000 feet of wire strung from the 200 foot level of the Space Needle. Created by MASS Ensemble‘s Bill Close, the harp was originally strung onto the Field Museum in Chicago in 1999. Since then, the group has attached this “world’s largest” string instrument to buildings across the U.S., the tallest so far being the Prudential Center in Boston at 700 ft. The harp is played by pulling down the length of a string with rosined gloves. The sound is deep and resonant. I spliced together a panoramic photograph of the entire length of the instrument. In this smaller photo you can see the curved wooden structure where the strings are attached in front.