Ellen Fullman’s long-string instrument is the stuff of legend.
Developed in the early ’80s, it consists of roughly 100 90-foot strings and is generally played by walking the length of said strings, rubbing them with rosin-coated fingers. The experience of hearing it in person has been compared to standing inside a gargantuan grand piano.
For her latest album Elemental View — a live recording of a collaborative installation with Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson’s Living Earth Show — she developed new approaches to her invention, using novel devices that allow her to play three (the box bow), six (the shovelette), and nine (the shoveler) strings at once, thus achieving unprecedented sounds with the instrument.

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